Heart of a Queen: Queen Victoria’s Romantic Attachments by Theo Aronson
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Overview: ‘My nature’, wrote Queen Victoria, ‘is too passionate, my emotions too fervent, and I am a person who has to cling to someone in order to find peace and comfort.’
To Queen Victoria, the love, attention and protection of a man was all but indispensable. During her long life, there were six men with whom her emotions were romantically involved: her first prime minister, the urbane Lord Melbourne; her husband, the idealistic Prince Albert; her fellow sovereign, the fascinating Napoleon III; her ghillie, the rough-hewn John Brown; another prime minister, the silver-tongued Disraeli; and her Indian servant, the exotic Munshi.
The main appeal to Queen Victoria of these six apparently disparate characters was that they were men of distinctive personality: there was something exceptional about each of them. And they all treated her as a woman first, a queen second.
By focusing on the Queen’s romantic associations and making full use of recently revealed material, Theo Aronson has painted a fresh, intriguing and startlingly different portrait of Queen Victoria. With his talent for narrative and characterization, he has produced one of the most incisive and readable of his many royal biographies.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs
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