Queen Victorias Gene

Author : Professor D M Potts
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752471961
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Queen Victoria's Gene written by Professor D M Potts and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-10-21 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queen Victoria's son, Prince Leopold, died from haemophilia, but no member of the royal family before his generation had suffered from the condition. Medically, there are only two possibilities: either one of Victoria's parents had a 1 in 50,000 random mutation, or Victoria was the illegitimate child of a haemophiliac man. However the haemophilia gene arose, it had a profound effect on history. Two of Victoria's daughters were silent carriers who passed the disease to the Spanish and Russian royal families. The disease played a role in the origin of the Spanish Civil War; and the tsarina's concern over her only son's haemophilia led to the entry of Rasputin into the royal household, contributing directly to the Russian Revolution. Finally, if Queen Victoria was illegitimate, who should have inherited the British throne? The answer is astonishing.

Author : Van der Kiste
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752473247
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Queen Victoria's Children written by Van der Kiste and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-10-24 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queen Victoria and Albert, Prince Consort had nine children who despite their very different characters, remained a close-knit family. Inevitably, as they married into European royal families their loyalties were divided and their lives dominated by political controversy. This is not only the story of their lives in terms of world impact, but also of their own personal achievements, their individual contributions to public life in Britain and overseas and in their roles as the children of Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort.

Author : Matthew Dennison
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789543916
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Princess written by Matthew Dennison and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. 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. She would eventually marry Prince Henry of Battenberg in 1885, but only after overcoming her mother's opposition to their union. 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. 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.

Author : Lucinda Hawksley
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1466863900
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Queen Victoria's Mysterious Daughter written by Lucinda Hawksley and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The secrets of Queen Victoria's sixth child, Princess Louise, may be destined to remain hidden forever. What was so dangerous about this artistic, tempestuous royal that her life has been documented more by rumor and gossip than hard facts? When Lucinda Hawksley started to investigate, often thwarted by inexplicable secrecy, she discovered a fascinating woman, modern before her time, whose story has been shielded for years from public view. Louise was a sculptor and painter, friend to the Pre-Raphaelites and a keen member of the Aesthetic movement. The most feisty of the Victorian princesses, she kicked against her mother's controlling nature and remained fiercely loyal to her brothers-especially the sickly Leopold and the much-maligned Bertie. She sought out other unconventional women, including Josephine Butler and George Eliot, and campaigned for education and health reform and for the rights of women. She battled with her indomitable mother for permission to practice the "masculine" art of sculpture and go to art college-and in doing so became the first British princess to attend a public school. The rumors of Louise's colorful love life persist even today, with hints of love affairs dating as far back as her teenage years, and notable scandals included entanglements with her sculpting tutor Joseph Edgar Boehm and possibly even her sister Princess Beatrice's handsome husband, Liko. True to rebellious form, she refused all royal suitors and became the first member of the royal family, since the sixteenth century, to marry a commoner. She moved with him to Canada when he was appointed Governor-General. Spirited and lively, Queen Victoria's Mysterious Daughter is richly packed with arguments, intrigues, scandals, and secrets, and is a vivid portrait of a princess desperate to escape her inheritance.

Author : Charlotte Zeepvat
Publisher : Lume Books
ISBN 13 : 9781839012761
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Queen Victoria's Youngest Son written by Charlotte Zeepvat and published by Lume Books. This book was released on 2021-03-04 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the life of Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, including his life at Oxford and the varied and interesting friendships he developed there (with, among others, Charles Dodgson - "Lewis Carroll" - John Ruskin and Oscar Wilde).

Author : Tara Rodden Robinson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0764595547
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Genetics For Dummies written by Tara Rodden Robinson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2005-09-02 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Want to know more about genetics? This non-intimidating guide gets you up to speed on all the fundamentals. From dominant and recessive inherited traits to the DNA double-helix, you get clear expectations in easy-to-understand terms. Plus, you'll see how people are applying genetic science to fight disease, develop new products, solve crimes ... and even clone cats." -- back cover.

Author : Jürgen Fuchs
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 0824756614
Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Redox-Genome Interactions in Health and Disease written by Jürgen Fuchs and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2003-09-12 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the nexus of advances in molecular genetics and findings in redox biology, this volume elaborates on the dynamics governing cellular redox states and aggregates the body of evidence linking oxidative stress and redox modulation with a host of monogenetic and polygenetic diseases.

Author : YCT Expert Team
Publisher : YOUTH COMPETITION TIMES
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book 2024-25 Staff Nurse Solved Papers written by YCT Expert Team and published by YOUTH COMPETITION TIMES. This book was released on with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2024-25 Staff Nurse Solved Papers

Author : YCT Expert Team
Publisher : YOUTH COMPETITION TIMES
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 784 pages
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Download or read book Study Material (UPPSC/UPNHM-CHO/AIIMS/BHU/DSSSB) written by YCT Expert Team and published by YOUTH COMPETITION TIMES. This book was released on with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: UPPSC/UPNHM-CHO/AIIMS/BHU/DSSSB Study Material Solved Papers

Author : Mandy Merck
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 152611304X
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The British monarchy on screen written by Mandy Merck and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-28 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. Moving images of the British monarchy are almost as old as the moving image itself, dating back to an 1895 American drama, The Execution of Mary Queen of Scots. And from 1896, actual British monarchs appeared in the new 'animated photography', led by Queen Victoria. Half a century later the 1953 coronation of Elizabeth II was a milestone in the adoption of television, watched by 20 million Britons and 100 million North Americans. At the century's end, Princess Diana's funeral was viewed by 2.5 billion worldwide. In the first book length examination of film and television representations of this enduring institution, distinguished scholars of media and political history analyze the screen representations of royalty from Henry VIII to 'William and Kate'. Seventeen essays by Ian Christie, Elisabeth Bronfen, Andrew Higson, Karen Lury, Glynn Davies, Jane Landman and other international commentators examine the portrayal of royalty in the 'actuality' picture, the early extended feature, amateur cinema, the movie melodrama, the Commonwealth documentary, New Queer Cinema, TV current affairs, the big screen ceremonial and the post-historical boxed set. A long overdue contribution to film and television studies, this book will be essential reading for scholars and students of British media and political history.