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Queen Victoria's Youngest Son

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A very good biography on Prince Leopold who's mostly known for his bleeding disease. Unlike other biographies the author doesn't waste time on who his parents are and their backgrounds instead she begins right off with his birth which I really liked. Sometimes it gets tedious going through all the background information before getting to the main subject. I also liked how it completely focused on Leopold when a big event happened like the death of his grandmother and father it focused on the events in relation to Leopold and not the other way around. It was very refreshing. I would like to thank the author very much for this. I also liked how the author never took away from Leopold's story. Many biographies when they bring up one of his siblings or parents will launch into a long discription about the sibling or parent, not this author but this author thankfully doesn't.
You can't help feel sorry for Leopold after reading about all of his injuries. Leopold was always sick or injuried to the point he couldn't walk. He spent so much of his childhood in bed that had to be boring for a child. Especially a boy who just wants to be outside playing like any normal boy. You can't help but feel sorry for him when there's more and more things he's forbiddened to do out of fear he would get hurt. Perhaps Queen Victoria was over doing the restrictions but given how many illnesses and injuries the poor boy had and how close to death he was many times you can understand why. He struggles to try and live a normal life inspite of his disease which I found pretty admirable. This truly was a really good biography.

the author focus on leopold completely.his haemophilia that he didn't let control the life ,or let his mother making him a invald.queen victoria was determin e to keep leopold home with her and beatrice.but he fought to make a life for him self.by going to oxford creating a family of friends who respect his intelligents and independence. he live a life he wanted to live no matter how short it was.of all victoria and albert childern i find leopold and alice the most interesting.