An engaging book review of Gillian Gill’s We Two in the Washington Times notes in passing that the power brokers around Queen Victoria were determined from the beginning to keep her young husband in his place. So Albert was permitted to bring only his valet, his dog and his librarian with him to England. This is the first time I [...]
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Princes have Librarians? Van Gogh’s Ear and Other Oddities
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