Love Letters of Kings and Queens

Synopsis

Tender, moving, heartfelt and warm (and sporadically scandalous and outrageous too), these are the private messages between people in love. Yet they are also correspondence between the rulers of nations. From Henry VIII's lovelorn notes to Anne Boleyn and George IV's impassioned notes to his secret wife, to Queen Victoria's tender letters to Prince Albert and Edward VIII's extraordinary correspondence with Wallis Simpson - these letters depict romantic love from its budding passion to the comfort and understanding of a long union (and occasionally beyond to resentment and recrimination), all set against the background of great affairs of state, wars and the strictures of royal duty.Here is a chance to glimpse behind the pomp and ceremony, the carefully curated images of royal splendour and decorum, to see the passions, hopes, jealousies and loneliness of kings and queens throughout history. By turns tender, moving, heartfelt and warm (and sporadically scandalous and outrageous too), these are the private messages between people in love. Yet they are also correspondence between the rulers of nations, whose actions (and passions) changed the course of history, for good and bad.This morning I received your dear, dear letter of the 21st. How happy do you make me with your love! Oh! my Angel Albert, I am quite enchanted with it! I do not deserve such love! Never, never did I think I could be loved so much. Queen Victoria to Prince Albert (28 November 1839)

Copyright:

2021

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

352 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781529413533

Related ISBNs:

9781529413526

Publisher:

Quercus

Date of Addition:

02/16/21

Copyrighted By:

Daniel Smith

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Romance, Biographies and Memoirs, Literature and Fiction, Politics and Government

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Bookshare Staff

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