The Principal Speeches and Addresses of His Royal Highness the Prince Consort: With an Introduction, Giving Some Outlines of His Character

ISBN-13: 9781108067034 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 276 str.

Prince Consort Albert;Arthur Helps

Opis

Initially faced with popular mistrust, Prince Albert (1819 61) fought hard to establish his own role both in public and in his marriage to Queen Victoria. Before he died, he came to be recognised as an influential figure in a kind of dual monarchy, acting as an intermediary with prime ministers and orchestrating the hugely complicated but ultimately successful Great Exhibition of 1851. This collection of speeches, edited by Sir Arthur Helps (1813 75) and published in 1862, was compiled at the request of the widowed Victoria. The speeches reflect the Prince's standing in public life and his unusual position as a consort who was afforded wide-ranging responsibilities. Clerk of the Privy Council, Helps had known Albert personally and his introduction provides an overwhelmingly positive character sketch. Official biographer Theodore Martin's five-volume Life of His Royal Highness the Prince Consort (1875 80) is also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection."