Queen Victoria’s Daughters-in-Law

The first book to study the four wives of Queen Victoria’s sons as a family group—based partly on previously unpublished material from the Royal Archives. The first to join the family of the “Grandmama of Europe” was Alexandra, eldest daughter of the prince about to become King Christian IX of Denmark. Charming, ever sympathetic and widely considered one of the most attractive royal women of her time, she was prematurely deaf and suffered from a limp which was made fashionable by court ladies du