![]() ![]() Matthew Dennison's elegantly written biography restores Beatrice to her rightful place as a key figure in the history of the Victorian age, and paints a touching and revealing portrait of the life and family of Britain's second-longest-reigning monarch. Matthew Dennison is the author of three acclaimed works of non-fiction: The Last Princess: The Devoted Life of Queen Victorias Youngest Daughter. Beatrice remained Queen Victoria's favourite among her five daughters, and became her mother's constant companion and later her literary executor, spending the years that followed Victoria's death in 1901 editing her mother's journals and voluminous correspondence. She would eventually marry Prince Henry of Battenberg in 1885, but only after overcoming her mother's opposition to their union. ![]() Her childhood coincided with her mother's extended period of mourning for her prematurely deceased husband, a circumstance which may have contributed to Victoria's determination to keep her youngest daughter as close to her as possible. ![]() Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodore, later Princess Henry of Battenberg, was the last-born - in 1866 - of Victoria and Albert's children, and she would outlive all of her siblings to die as recently as 1944. It was in this remarkable room on 20 June 1837 that Princess Victoria was woken by the Duchess of Kent, to receive the news of the death of her uncle, King William IV in her sitting-room below. ![]()
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