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Queen Victoria's Mysterious Daughter

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by Lucinda Hawksley


  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

  Copyright

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  QUEEN VICTORIA’S MYSTERIOUS DAUGHTER. Copyright © 2013 by Lucinda Hawksley. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

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  Extracts from Whistler’s letters are reproduced by permission of the University of Glasgow Library, Special Collections. Extracts from Wilfred Scawen Blunt’s diaries are reproduced by permission of the Syndics of the Fitzwilliam Museum.

  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

 

 

 


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