Queen Victoria's Mysterious Daughter
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7. The Locock family secret
8. An art student at last
9. Falling in love with the Cult of Beauty
10. The people’s princess
11. A controversial betrothal
12. ‘The most popular act of my reign’
13. A battle for independence
14. Politics and Aestheticism
15. The first year in Canada
16. A marriage lived in different continents
17. Escaping the Fenians in Bermuda
18. Return to London – and tragedy
19. Keeping up appearances
20. Scandal amongst the Campbells
21. Celebrating the Golden Jubilee
22. The princess and the sculptor
23. Trying to dull the pain
24. Scandal in the royal household
25. A new century and the end of an era
26. The death of Henry Locock
27. The king, the kaiser and the duke
28. Widowhood and war
29. The Grande Dame of Kensington
30. ‘This remarkable lady’
31. One last rebellious command
Epilogue
Photographs
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Also by Lucinda Hawksley
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hawksley, Lucinda.
Queen Victoria’s mysterious daughter: a biography of Princess Louise / Lucinda Hawksley. — First U.S. edition.
p. cm.
Originally published as: The mystery of Princess Louise. London: Chatto & Windus, 2013.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-250-05932-1 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-1-46686390-3 (e-book)
1. Louise, Princess, Duchess of Argyll, 1848–1939. 2. Princesses—Great Britain—Biography. 3. Great Britain—History—Victoria, 1837–1901. I. Title.
DA559.L6H39 2015
941.081092—dc23
[B]
2015025030
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First published in Great Britain by Chatto & Windus, an imprint of Random House, a division of the Random House Group Limited
First U.S. Edition: December 2015
eISBN: 9781466863903