Language 1408852829 
Queen Victoria's matchmaking : the royal marriages that shaped Europe. 
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Publication year: 2017
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Classification: 941.081
Publisher: London : Bloomsbury, 2017.
ISBN: 1408852829 9781408852828 (hbk): 20.00
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A captivating exploration of the role in which Queen Victoria exerted most international power and influence: her role as matchmaking grandmother By the 1890s, Queen Victoria had over 30 grandchildren and to maintain and increase royal power in Europe, she knew she had to manoeuvre them into a series of dynastic marriages. In her sights was royalty from across the world. Yet for all their seeming obedience, her grandchildren often had plans of their own, plans fuelled by strong wills and romantic hearts. Her matchmaking plans were only further complicated by their coinciding with tumultuous international upheavals; revolution and war were in the air and after her death, her most carefully laid plans fell to ruin. This book travels through the most glittering, decadent palaces of Russia and Europe, weaving in scandals, political machinations and family tensions, to enthralling effect.
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