The Letters to Vicky

This selection draws on the long correspondence, beginning in 1858, between Queen Victoria and her eldest daughter Victoria, the Princess Royal, later German Empress. After Vicky's marriage to Frederick of Prussia the two write across the North Sea about pregnancies, court etiquette, ministers, wars, and the characters of Albert, Bertie, and the Hohenzollern household. The letters follow German unification, Frederick's brief reign, and Vicky's isolation under her son William, until both women are near death. The book is a mother-and-daughter letter collection about two courts, not a formal life of either woman.

Bound in design blocked buckram. Fold-out genealogical tables. Dark blue slipcase.