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Queen Victoria and The Romanovs: Sixty Years of Mutual Distrust Paperback – May 15, 2022

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Alexander III called Victoria ‘a pampered, sentimental, selfish old woman,’ while to her he was a sovereign whom she could not regard as a gentleman. But the Queen's son and two of her granddaughters married Romanovs.

Despite their frequent visits to England, Queen Victoria never quite trusted the Romanovs. In her letters she referred to ‘horrid Russia’ and was adamant that she did not wish her granddaughters to marry into that barbaric country. ‘Russia I could not wish for any of you,’ she said. She distrusted Tsar Nicholas I but as a young woman she was bowled over by his son, the future Alexander II, although there could be no question of a marriage. Political questions loomed large and the Crimean War did nothing to improve relations. This distrust started with the story of the Queen’s ‘Aunt Julie’, Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, and her disastrous Russian marriage.

Starting with this marital catastrophe, Romanov expert Coryne Hall traces sixty years of family feuding that include outright war, inter-marriages, assassination, and the Great Game in Afghanistan, when Alexander III called Victoria ‘a pampered, sentimental, selfish old woman’. In the fateful year of 1894, Victoria must come to terms with the fact that her granddaughter has become Nicholas II’s wife, the Empress Alexandra Feodorovna. Eventually, distrust of the German Kaiser brings Victoria and the Tsar closer together.

Permission has kindly been granted by the Royal Archives at Windsor to use extracts from Queen Victoria's journals to tell this fascinating story of family relations played out on the world stage.

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May 15, 2022
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5.08 x 0.8 x 7.8 inches
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1398109096
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978-1398109094
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Coryne Hall is a historian, broadcaster and consultant specializing in the Romanovs and British and European royalty.

Her books include Little Mother of Russia, a Biography of the Empress Marie Feodorovna 1847-1928; Once a Grand Duchess. Xenia, Sister of Nicholas II (with John Van der Kiste); Imperial Dancer. Mathilde Kschessinska and the Romanovs; Princesses on the Wards. Royal Women in Nursing Through Wars and Revolutions and Princess Olga. A Wild and Barefoot Romanov (With H.H. Princess Olga Romanoff). She is a regular contributor to Majesty magazine, The European Royal History Journal, Royal Russia and Royalty Digest Quarterly.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Amberley Publishing (May 15, 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1398109096
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1398109094
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.08 x 0.8 x 7.8 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #1,247,310 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #299 in Victorian Literary Criticism (Books)
- #1,830 in Royalty Biographies
- #6,484 in Great Britain History (Books)

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ALKinPHX

So Loved This Book!

Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2023

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I enjoyed every page of this book, a perfect blend of history and family. I learned even more about that royals I felt I knew so well. Endlessly entertaining and enlightening. I highly recommend!

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Suz1966

Arrived quickly and in great shape!

Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2023

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The book was interesting and I enjoyed it. Thanks!

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R. Lowe

The royal families

Reviewed in the United States on November 13, 2020

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I really enjoyed this book and Queen Victoria a very interesting lady. It certainly makes me happy that I have no royal blood. Arranged marriages! How crazy is that? And if any 2 people should not have married, it would be 99% of all the royal families! But an interesting read.

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Arthur H. Roach

So much new!

Reviewed in the United States on November 6, 2020

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There is a wealth of material and information that I've seen nowhere else (and I've read everything. :-) ) From her first dance with the handsome Grand Duke to the rest of her life and reign, the book captures both nuances and big pictures. Marie, Duchess of Edinburgh, is nearly always overlooked in biographies, but she has a major role in this book. Daughter and sister of a tsar, she was a Grand Duchess at home. In England, she resented the "step down" to be a mere duchess (and behind Victoria's daughters) in seniority. Information on the courtship of Nicholas and Alexandra is interesting but mostly familiar; however Alexandra's sister, Ella, had a fascinating journey through marriage to a Grand Duke, an emotionally distant spouse; her deeply spiritual life and founding of a religious order of nuns; and her tragic death at the revolution. All of this is told in the context of Victoria's relationship to her family and their Russian connections. A great read!

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Sue Kelley

Fascinating

Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2021

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Surprisingly fascinating. I couldnt stop reading it. Although the author stops with Victoria's death and doesn't speculate on how her distrust of the Russians may have passed down to her grandson George V and influenced him not to try to rescue his cousins and their children. Also the author seems to imply Victoria understood the hemophilia she had brought into the family and other things I have read said she simply did not, commenting once (when another grandson died) that she didn't understand why her family members were so prone to the disease. If as the author states doctors at the time were aware of the hereditary nature of the disease but royal families were not, it's interesting to speculate how world and especially European history would be different if they had.

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Queen Victoria and The Roman's

Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2020

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This was ok, but I've read a lot of books on Russia in that time period , most of the other were far superior, this was just ok.

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J. Gates

Trust and Distrust

Reviewed in the United States on January 16, 2022

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I enjoyed the way the author explained the family dynamic from Queen Victoria's involvement. I just finished reading two other books about Victoria's interest with the marriages of her daughters and grandchildren. Amazing how the marriages of cousins and other royality of Russia and German background was the priority dictated by Albert's desire to keep peace with neighboring countries. I would recommend the book to anyone who loves reading about the Royal English family.

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John Gibble

Queen Victoria and the Romanovs

Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2021

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Read this book late July 2021. Found it to be interesting and informative as I enjoy reading historical novels. Gave me
An insight to the Romanov family

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Ghazala Khan

Queen Victoria book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 5, 2023

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Haven’t read the book yet but any book on Queen Victoria history is amazing

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An engrossing and informative read.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 2, 2020

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A fascinating book, detailing the ambivalent relationship Queen Victoria had with the Russian royal family over the sixty years of her reign. The wealth of superbly researched detail - a lot of it taken from Victoria's own diaries - paints a fascinating portrait of European royalty during this period, which was liberally populated with Victoria's children and grandchildren. One of her sons married into the Romanovs, as did two of her granddaughters. A succession of reigning Tsars and other members of the Russian royal family came to England to visit Victoria during the years of her reign, some of whom found favour with her while others did not. As with Coryne Hall's other books, this is beautifully written and I would recommend it to anyone with even a vague interest in Queen Victoria or the Romanovs, or indeed European royalty in general.

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Glyn Overton

Present

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 10, 2021

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What a ridiculous question!

Thomas Clark Eglinton

Great

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 25, 2020

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This is an excellent book. I could not put it down

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