The Mystery of Princess Louise: Queen Victoria's Rebellious Daughter
"The fullest biography yet of a princess who was friends with Josephine Butler, a feminist and advocate for the health of sex workers, well deserves its place on the shelf" -- Lucy Worsley Sunday Express "I've always wanted to know more about Princess Louise... Biographies of Kate Perugini and Elizabeth Siddal - who moved in similar artistic circles - drew Hawksley to her. Court secrecy meant that resourcefulness was needed to write it" -- Ruth Richardson Times Higher Education "Lively, engaging and buoyantly enthusiastic, Hawksley's gallant but necessarily speculative book should encourage the royal archivists to stop being so protective" -- Miranda Seymour Sunday Times "Hawksley's entertaining and lengthy book gives a vivid insight into Victorian royal life and the repressions and sexual hypocrisies of those days" -- Anthony Looch UK Press Syndication "Satisfyingly replete with eye-popping stories of life at the various palaces" -- Rachel Cooke Observer