Author: WILSON, A. N. Title: Prince Albert: The Man Who Saved the Monarchy.
Description: First Edition; Thick Med. 8vo; pp. xviii, 430; endpaper family trees, 16 pages of coloured and b/w. plates, full page portrait illustration, bibliography, notes, index, bound in original red cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket, fine copy. London; Atlantic Books; 2019. Albert lived only forty-two years. Yet in that time, he fathered the royal dynasties of Germany, Russia, Spain and Bulgaria. Through Victoria, Albert and her German advisers pioneered the idea of the modern constitutonal monarchy. In this sweeping biography, Wilson demonstrates that there was hardly any aspect of British national life which Albert did not touch.
Keywords: biography english history europe
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