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The Widow of Windsor (1974)

by Jean Plaidy

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Series: Queen Victoria Tetralogy (4)

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Albert is dead and the queen is preparing to spend the rest of her life in mourning. Yet the last years of her reign are to be momentous years. Palmerston, then Gladstone and Disraeli, govern her empire through the high noon of its heyday. The court at Windsor, Balmoral, Osborne or Buckingham Palace is perpetually shocked by the Prince of Wales, forever in pursuit of horses, women and scandal, the heady harbinger of Edwardian years to come.… (more)
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Excellent historical fiction; I suspect it lifts so much from diaries and letters that it's barely fictionalized at all.
It really brings to life the historical figures that usually just flit by as names without personalities. ( )
  Alishadt | Feb 25, 2023 |
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Plaidy, Jeanprimary authorall editionsconfirmed
Bond, JillyNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Cavándoli, MargaritaTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Piskoř, VladimírTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed

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Mourning hung heavily over Windsor.
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Albert is dead and the queen is preparing to spend the rest of her life in mourning. Yet the last years of her reign are to be momentous years. Palmerston, then Gladstone and Disraeli, govern her empire through the high noon of its heyday. The court at Windsor, Balmoral, Osborne or Buckingham Palace is perpetually shocked by the Prince of Wales, forever in pursuit of horses, women and scandal, the heady harbinger of Edwardian years to come.

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