Ebook: Prince Albert: the man who saved the monarchy
- Tags: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Biography: Historical Political & Military, British & Irish History, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, Modern History To 20th Century: C 1700 To C 1900, History, Biography, Albert -- Prince Consort consort of Victoria Queen of Great Britain -- 1819-1861, Great Britain -- History -- Victoria 1837-1901, Great Britain
- Year: 2019
- Publisher: Atlantic Books
- City: Great Britain
- Edition: Main
- Language: English
- epub
'Highly entertaining' Sunday Times
'Enthralling' Daily Telegraph
For more than six decades, Queen Victoria ruled a great Empire at the height of its power. Beside her for more than twenty of those years was the love of her life, her trusted husband and father of their nine children, Prince Albert. But while Victoria is seen as the embodiment of her time, it was Prince Albert, A. N. Wilson expertly argues, who was at the vanguard of Victorian Britain's transformation as a vibrant and extraordinary centre of political, technological, scientific and intellectual advancement. Far more than just the product of his age, Albert was one of its influencers and architects. A composer, engineer, soldier, politician, linguist and bibliophile, Prince Albert, more than any other royal, was truly a 'genius'.
Albert lived only forty-two years. Yet in that time, he fathered the royal dynasties of Germany, Russia, Spain and Bulgaria. Through...