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Dearest Vicky, Darling Fritz: The Tragic Love Story of Queen Victoria's Eldest Daughter and the German Emperor
John Van der Kiste
Hardcover. Sutton Publishing 2001-10.
ISBN 9780750925839
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Förlagets beskrivning
With the wedding of Vicky, Princess Royal of Great Britain, and Crown
Prince Frederick William of Prussia in January 1858, the prospects of a
peaceful and harmonius Europe looked promising. The young couple was very much
in love, yet several tragedies marred their marriage: the traumatic birth of
their first son and heir, William; the death of Prince Albert, Vicky's father
and the couple's political mentor, from typhoid; Frederick's estrangment from
his father, and the Emperor's preference for Bismarck and the young Prince
William; and the deaths of their third son from meningitis and then the fourth
son from diptheria. When Frederick eventually succeeded to the throne in March
1888, he was already seriously ill with cancer and died three months later. His
tragically early death was thus one of the turning points of modern European
history. Had Frederick lived longer, Germany and Britain would have drawn
closer together, amicable relations with France and Russia would have been
restored, and there would almost certainly have been no Great War. The tragic love story of Vicky, Princess Royal of Great Britain, and Crown
Prince Frederick William of Prussia. Had their marriage in January 1858 not
been dramatically cut short by the early death of Frederick, many believe World
War I would not have taken place.
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