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A Magnificent Obsession: Victoria, Albert, and the Death That Changed the British Monarchy by Helen Rappaport (CD-Audio, 2012)

After the untimely death of Prince Albert, the Queen and her nation were plunged into a state of grief so profound that this one event would dramatically alter the shape of the British monarchy. For Britain had t just lost a prince: during his twenty year marriage to Queen Victoria, Prince Albert had increasingly performed the function of King in all but name. The outpouring of grief after Albert's death was so extreme, that its like would t be seen again until the death of Princess Diana one hundred and thirty-six years later.Drawing on many letters, diaries and memoirs from the Royal Archives and other neglected sources, as well as the newspapers of the day, Helen Rappaport offers a new perspective on this compelling historical psychodrama-the crucial final months of the prince's life and the first long, dark ten years of the Queen's retreat from public view. She draws a portrait of a queen obsessed with her husband and-after his death-with his enduring place in history. Magnificent Obsession also sheds new light on the true nature of the prince's chronic physical condition, overturning for good the one hundred and fifty-year-old myth that he died of typhoid fever.

Place of Publication
Old Saybrook, Ct
Running Time
720
Narrator(s)
Wanda Mccaddon
Author Biography
Helen Rappaport is the author of a number of historical works, including Joseph Stalin,No Place for Ladies, and The Last Days of the Romanovs, as well as the Victorian true-crime story Beautiful for Ever. She is a fluent Russian speaker and a specialist in Russian history and nineteenth-century women's history. Wanda McCaddon has narrated well over six hundred titles for major audio publishers and has earned more than twenty-five Earphones Awards from AudioFile magazine. She has also won a coveted Audie Award, and AudioFile has named her one of recording's Golden Voices.
Date of Publication
09/04/2012
Edition Statement
Unabridged
Country of Publication
United States

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