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Private Correspondence of Queen Victoria and the German Crown Princes 1865-1871 1981 Reprint Edition. In very good condition, clean and bright pages complete with dust-jacked. The spine has been exposed to some sunning and is slightly faded. Sensitive, emotional, capable of deep feeling and righteous wrath, Queen Victoria and her eldest daughter, the Crown Princess of Prussia, were nevertheless shrewd observers of the great events of their time and their correspondence provides a unique commentary on mid-Victorian life. This volume of their letters covers six years of exceptional anxiety in Great Britain and Europe and the writers vividly record the short but severe war between Austria and Prussia in 1866 and the more savage Franco-Prussian War four years afterwards. Relations between England and Prussia were the subject of serious concern to both correspondents, and to the Queen in particular when she saw how international rivalries could be reflected in family relationships. Yet neither the Queen nor her daughter ever flinches from expressing her own national point of view and the letters are exact reflections of the mind of each writer. It is this quality of frankness which gives both sides of this hitherto unpublished correspondence its zest, whether it is concerned with domestic or national affairs.
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