Author: RENNELL, TONY
Title: Last days of glory : the death of Queen Victoria / Tony Rennell
Description: London : Viking 2000. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 326 pages; 1st edition. 2nd printing. 326 p. [8]p of plates : ill. ; 24cm. Queen Victoria's death. in January 1901. was an immense shock that unsettled Britain and the Empire to a degree that now seems inconceivable. She had been Queen for 63 years; people wept in the streets. and a million onlookers lined the route of her funeral procession in London. What would the country do without her? 'Last Days of Glory' traces the dying days of Queen Victoria -from Christmas 1900 through to her funeral six weeks later -brilliantly capturing the intense drama in the royal household. where a beloved mother. grandmother and great-grandmother lay mortally ill. and the extraordinary fear and anguish beyond. in the whole nation and throughout the world.ISBN: 0670891118. Weight in Kg appr.:

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