Hardcover,VERY GOOD, deep burgundy boards, 307 pp... Frontispiece of The Nonpareil - a new variety of pear with flap which reveals Victoria and Albert (the pair). The letters disprove for ever the suggestion that the infidelity of Prince Albert's mother affected the succession or the racial purity of the English Royal Family. Students of the century may be surprised by the way in which the author has avoided political history. He has tried to tell the story of great political changes only in so far as they affected the Prince's life.

Prince Albert, Victorian, Coburg Court,political History.