Queen Victoria's Family: A Century of Photographs [Illustrated] [Hardcover]

Charlotte Zeepvat (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 25, 2001

The beginning of Queen Victoria's reign coincided with the advent of photography. Before her children had left the nursery, the first photographs of the royal family were andthe public saw a new dimension of the monarchy. This album includes more than 300 pictures and illuminates the lives, personalities, and tastes of the Queen's family.

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About the Author

Charlotte Zeepvat is a freelance writer and Historical Consultant of Royalty Digest. Her first book, Prince Leopold: The Untold Story of Queen Victoria's Youngest Son, (ISBN 0 7509 2292 3) was published to widespread acclaim in 1998; her second, Romantov Autumn: Stories from the Last Century of Imperial Russia (ISBN 0 7509 2337 7) was published in November 1999. She lives near Rye, Sussex.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: Sutton Publishing; illustrated edition edition (June 25, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0750926872
• ISBN-13: 978-0750926874
• Product Dimensions: 10.4 x 7.7 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,010,971 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Photos Both Obscure and Well Known, March 26, 2002

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John D. Cofield - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Queen Victoria's Family: A Century of Photographs (Hardcover)

Queen Victoria's Family traces the photographical history of Queen Victoria's descendants from about 1840 to 1940. Some of the pictures are very familiar to any royal aficionado, but most are fairly new and show a lot of the less prominent members of the family, like the descendants of Leopold Duke of Albany, who tend to get the short end of the stick from other royal chroniclers. Its nice to browse through and because its arranged chronologically, the inherited family characteristics like weak chins and prominent eyes really jump out. It must have been difficult to tell the Waleses from the Edinburghs and the Glucksburgs from the Bernadottes at times! Its also interesting to see childhood pictures of some of today's royals. There's one picture of Prince Philip, for example, that looks just like his son Prince Edward at about the same age. Finally, this is a nice book because it helps us realize that the European royals were and are just one big extended family with multitudinous branches.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars 100 years of royal photographs, November 28, 2001

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K. Maxwell "katmax1" (Sydney, Australia) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Queen Victoria's Family: A Century of Photographs (Hardcover)

The key to this book is actually in it's subtitle : 100 years of royal photography. It is heavy in photographs of Queen Victoria's family and her descendants. It deals not only with her children, but their children and grandchildren.

The pictures in this book are all of good quality, and some are not commonly seen on books on English royalty. Each photograph has a little story attched giving you some information on the person in the picture and something about what path their life took. There is some intersting information and suprises in these little stories.

The photos are divided into both private and public, so you get a mixture of family photos and some of royalty dressed to the hilt in jewels to die for.

An interesting, but slightly dissapointing book, as I would have loved to see more 19th century photos and maybe a greater range of formal pictures.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Engaging!, May 7, 2002

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This review is from: Queen Victoria's Family: A Century of Photographs (Hardcover)

Zeepvat has compiled a collection of photographs any follower of Queen Victoria's family will appreciate. While many biographies display photos of Victoria and Albert, their children and children-in-law, only a smattering of her many grandchildren are featured. And rarely are there any likenesses given for her army of great-grandchildren. This treasury of snapshots, many before unseen by the general readership, is laid out in generational format. The insightful captions and copious genealogical charts in the end pages both make for easy reference to keep up with how the subjects are related to one another. In short, a very touching and well-presented album sure to please many.