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The Life of His Royal Highness the Prince Consort 5 Volume Set, Mixed media product Book

The Life of His Royal Highness the Prince Consort 5 Volume Set Mixed media product

Part of the Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, 19th Century series

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A lawyer by profession, Theodore Martin (1816-1909) gained literary distinction as both a humorous essayist and versatile translator.

He found his greatest success, however, in the role of biographer to Prince Albert (1819-61).

Commissioned by Queen Victoria to memorialise her late husband, this five-volume work was first published between 1875 and 1880.

Intended as a continuation of the biography begun by Charles Grey (also reissued in this series), it has been described as 'less adulatory in tone than might be expected'.

A treasury of letters and memoranda, it presents a detailed portrait of the character, words and deeds of a man whose life was necessarily immersed in the great events of his time.

The volumes cover Albert's youth, his marriage to Victoria, the births of their children, Albert's role during the Great Exhibition and the Crimean War, and his protracted illness and death at the age of forty-two.

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