Victoria by Helen Rappaport

Author:Helen Rappaport
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2016-12-02T05:00:00+00:00

FOR THE HIGHLY SENSITIVE ALBERT, receiving a reduced allowance was a slap in the face; he told Uncle Leopold that he was ‘shocked and exasperated by the disrespect’ shown him. Even from a distance, he had become painfully aware of the hostile reception that awaited him in a country already disposed not to like him as both a German and a foreigner. The satirical press was already lampooning him for his German accent and his stiff and starchy Teutonic manner. He therefore contemplated his future with mixed emotions. Dreading having to leave behind his intimate and sheltered world in Coburg, he wrote with some apprehension about what lay ahead:

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