num_pages: 370
description: Five women who shared one of the most extraordinary and privileged sisterhoods of all time...Vicky, Alice, Helena, Louise, and Beatrice were historically unique sisters, born to a sovereign who ruled over a quarter of the earth's people and who gave her name to an Queen Victoria. Two of these princesses would themselves produce children of immense consequence. All five would face the social restrictions and familial machinations borne by ninetheenth-century women of far less exalted class.Researched at the houses and palaces of its five subjects-- in London, Scotland, Berlin, Darmstadt, and Ottawa-- Victoria's Daughters examines a generation of royal women who were dominated by their mother, married off as much for political advantage as for love, and passed over entirely when their brother Bertie ascended to the throne. Packard, an experienced biographer whose last book chronicled Victoria's final days, provides valuable insights into their complex, oft-tragic lives as scions of Europe's most influential dynasty, and daughters of their own very troubled times.
language: English
title: Victoria's Daughters
titlecomplete: Victoria's Daughters
characters: Beatrice, Princess Henry of Battenberg, Alice, Grand duchess of Hesse-Darmstadt, Helena (Lenchen), Princess Christian, Victoria (Vicky), Crown Princess of Prussia, German empress, Louise, Marchioness of Lorne, later duchess of Argyll
genres: Historical, Biography, British Literature, European History, Nonfiction, 19th Century, Biography Memoir, Germany, History, Victorian
ratings_count: 5105
publisher: St. Martin's Griffin