Hessian Tapestry
Book description
, 415 pages, with black and white illustrations and genealogical tables
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1 author picked Hessian Tapestry as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Narrowing things down a bit, this book centres on just one line of descent from Victoria - that of her 2nd daughter, Alice.
Alice married Louis of Hesse - a small central German state that was at the maelstrom of the Austro-Prussian and Franco-Prussian wars. Alice carried Prince Albert’s emancipated vision of Royalty as servants of the people, founding charities and nursing during the wars - helping to carve out the role of royalty today. She also carried Victoria’s gene of haemophilia which passed to some of her children. Amongst Alice’s descendants is our King Charles and the last Tsarina…
From Sue's list on 19th/20th century royal history.
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