The Four Graces:
Queen Victoria's Hessian Granddaughters
by
Kensington House Books
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The Four Graces: Queen Victoria's Hessian Granddaughters by Kensington House Books |
The Four Graces: Queen Victoria’s
Hessian Granddaughters is a family biography of the four
Princesses of the House of Hesse, who come of age during an era of turbulent
upheaval. Each makes a brilliant
marriage that will bring her both happiness and heartbreak. The eldest, Princess
Victoria marries the handsome Prince Louis of Battenberg, the former lover of
Lillie Langtry, and must watch helplessly as her family is torn apart by war and
politics. Her three sisters make far more spectacular marriages in the royal
houses of
From such exotic locals as Russia, Bulgaria and Ottoman Jerusalem, to the drawing rooms of Sandringham, and the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, The Four Graces is told from the point of view of the eldest sister, Princess Victoria of Hesse, who was the favorite granddaughter of Queen Victoria of England, and would later become the mother of Lord Mountbatten of Burma, the last Viceroy of India. Starting in the court of Queen Victoria and ending with the birth of Princess Victoria’s great-grandson, the current Prince of Wales, The Four Graces is the story of the electrifying period of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, with its terrifying wars and astonishing progress.
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