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Paperback Balmoral: Queen Victoria's Highland Home Book

ISBN: 1448201012

ISBN13: 9781448201013

Balmoral: Queen Victoria's Highland Home

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First published in 1981, this is Ronald Clark's engagingly readable account of Queen Victoria's relationship with "Our dear Balmoral" and the life that went on there.

The biography of Balmoral begins with the first visit to Scotland of the young Queen Victoria and her husband Prince Albert in 1842. Five years later, while bad weather envelops the Royal party in western Scotland, the son of the Queen's physician, convalescing in Old Balmoral,...

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Great photos of Victoria and Albert's favorite home

This gives a brief history of the house and of the people who lived there from Victoria to the present royals. Clearly a much loved place.The book's strong point are the black and white photos, and many portraits of individuals who are known to history photographed there.The author gives the reader the sense that this was an important house historically and personally to the few favored to live and visit there.
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