Magnificent obsession
Subtitle: Victoria, Albert and the death that changed the monarchy
By: Helen Rappaport
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: Windsor/Paragon
Published: 2012
Place of publication: [Bath]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 483
ISBN-13: 9781445894041; 9781445894058
Subjects: Death and burial; Large type books; Princes; Biography; History
Description: "Queen Victoria's husband, Prince Albert, succumbed to typhoid fever in 1861. He was forty-two and official bulletins had, until the previous day, given no cause for alarm. His death was a catastrophe for Victoria, who relied on him utterly. The Queen donned the widow's weeds that she would wear for forty years and retreated into a state of pathological grief which nobody could penetrate and few understood. Her refusal to return to public life alienated even her closest family and led to a resurgence of reppublicanism and even talk of abdication. Rappaport tracks Victoria's mission to commemorate her husband in perpetuity, planning monuments that would set their stamp on the art and culture not just of her reign but of Britain today." -- p [4] of cover.
Notes: Standard print ed. originally published: London : Hutchinson, 2011.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: Christmas 1860; title: Part one: Albert the good (1. 'The treadmill of never-ending business ; 2. 'The first real blow of misfortune' ; 3. 'Fearfully in want of a true friend'; title: 4. Our most precious invalid' ; 5. 'Day turned into night' ; 6. 'Our great national calamity' ; 7. 'Will they do him justice?' ; 8. 'How will the Queen bear it?'); title: Part two: The broken-hearted widow (9. 'All alone!' ; 10. 'The luxury of woe' ; 11. 'A married daughter I must have living with me' ; 12. God knows how I want so much to be taken care of' ; 13. 'The Queen is invisible' ; 14. 'Heaven has sent us this dispensation to save us' ; 15. Albertopolis); title: Epilogue: Christmas 1878; title: Appendix: What killed Prince Albert?