Jean Plaidy THE QUEEN'S HUSBAND First Edition
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Jean Plaidy THE QUEEN'S HUSBAND First Edition
First UK edition, first print hardback of THE QUEEN'S HUSBAND - The third in the Queen Victoria Series, by Jean Plaidy and published by Robert Hale & Company, London in 1973. Text Decoration By B.S.Biro. Jacket Design By Philip Gough.The book is in very good condition (Clean maroon cloth boards with gold lettering) with some slight wear to the illustrated dust jacket, which is not price clipped (light creasing and rubbing to the edges and corners, two closed tears to the bottom corners, a one inch closed tear to the top corner at the back). Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no inscriptions.
The third book in the Queen Victoria series. Eleanor Hibbert (1906 1993) was a British author who wrote under various pen names. Her best-known pseudonyms were Jean Plaidy, Victoria Holt, and Philippa Carr; she also wrote under the names Eleanor Burford, Elbur Ford, Kathleen Kellow, Anne Percival, and Ellalice Tate. She chose the pseudonym Jean Plaidy for her historical novels about the crowned heads of Europe. By the time of her death, she had sold over 100 million books.
From the jacket blurb:
"From the time they were in their cradles, Victoria and Albert were destined for each other; but when Victoria came to the throne and became devoted to her Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne, she had no wish for marriage - until she saw Albert.
Albert, as the younger son of a minor German Duke, was necessarily ambitious and aware of what marriage with the Queen of England could mean; and when Victoria immediately fell in love with him, he believed his future was secure. But he did not know the Queen's nature and that beneath that clinging femininity was a will of iron. Wholeheartedly affectionate, impulsive, demonstrative, loyal and possessed of a notoriously hot temper, loving to gossip and dance till the early hours of morning, Victoria's character was in complete opposition to that of her serious husband who liked to rise at dawn and retire early.
It was inevitable that during the first years the relationship was stormy. The Queen was in perpetual revolt against any encroachment on her position as well as the constant pregnancies she had to endure. Albert's battle was for supremacy and he was determined that Victoria should regard herself as his wife first, as Queen second.
These were significant years when British history was shaped by statesmen such as Sir Robert Peel and Lord Palmerston and by great events such as the Crimean War and the Indian Mutiny; and more than once the Queen came near to death through assassination.
Yet her life was dominated by her husband and family life. There was naughty Bertie, brilliant Vicky, placid Alice, delicate Leopald and five other children of the marriage. But for the Queen there was one who meant more than the rest of the world put together - Albert.
So the Victorian age was created and the power behind the throne was the Queen's Husband."
382 pages.
ISBN: 0 7091 3572 6
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