Serving Victoria : life in the royal household / Kate Hubbard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hubbard, Kate.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901.

Victoria.

Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901--Employees.

Royal households--Great Britain--Biography.

Royal households.

Household employees--Great Britain--History--19th century--Biography.

Household employees.

Courts and courtiers--History--19th century--Biography.

Courts and courtiers.

Queens--Great Britain--Biography.

Queens.

Great Britain--History--19th century.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xii, 417 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.

Edition:

1st U.S. ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Harper, c2013.

Summary:

Serving Victoria follows the lives of six members of her household, from the governess to the royal children, from her maid of honor to her chaplain and her personal physician -- Front jacket flap.

Contents:

'A queen is a very happy woman'. Windsor 1838 ; A scandal and a crisis ; 'Love rules the court' ; Sarah Lyttelton : superintendent of the nursery ; Charlotte Canning : lady of the bedchamber ; 'Gone afloat' ; Osborne ; In the highlands ; 'The object of education' ; Departures ; Mary Ponsonby : maid-of-honour ; Glimpses of abroad ; Three deaths

'My heart is utterly and completely broken'. 'Someone to lean on' ; Henry Ponsonby : private secretary ; Balmorality ; Eastern Questions and domestic affairs ; James Reid : resident medical attendant ; Randall Davidson : dean of Windsor ; Spring holidays ; Household bothers ; The year of the Munshi ; Accommodating Bipps ; 'A last look'

After Victoria.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Beardwood fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9780062269911 ;

OCLC:

817562742