{"product_id":"clare-mchugh-most-english-princess-a-9780062997609","title":"Most English Princess, A","description":"\"In this sweeping, immersive novel, Clare McHugh draws readers into the mesmerizing world of the eldest\n\u003cbr\u003e\ndaughter of Queen Victoria – Princess Vicky – as she emerges into a powerful\n\u003cbr\u003e\nforce in her own right and ascends to become the first German\n\u003cbr\u003e\nEmpress.” —Marie Benedict, New York Times bestselling author of The Only Woman in the Room   Perfect for fans of the BBC's Victoria,\n\u003cbr\u003e\nAlison Pataki's The Accidental\n\u003cbr\u003e\nEmpress, and Daisy Goodwin's Victoria, this\n\u003cbr\u003e\ndebut novel tells the gripping and tragic story of Queen Victoria’s eldest\n\u003cbr\u003e\ndaughter, Victoria,\n\u003cbr\u003e\nPrincess Royal. To the world, she was Princess Victoria, daughter of a queen, wife of an\n\u003cbr\u003e\nemperor, and mother of Kaiser Wilhelm. Her family just called her Vicky…smart,\n\u003cbr\u003e\npretty, and self-assured, she changed the course of the world.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nJanuary 1858: Princess Victoria glides down the aisle of St James Chapel to\n\u003cbr\u003e\nthe waiting arms of her beloved, Fritz, Prince Frederick, heir to the powerful\n\u003cbr\u003e\nkingdom of Prussia. Although theirs is no mere political match, Vicky is\n\u003cbr\u003e\ndetermined that she and Fritz will lead by example, just as her parents\n\u003cbr\u003e\nVictoria and Albert had done, and also bring about a liberal and united\n\u003cbr\u003e\nGermany.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nBrought up to believe in the rightness of her cause, Vicky nonetheless\n\u003cbr\u003e\nstruggles to thrive in the constrained Prussian court, where each day she seems\n\u003cbr\u003e\nto take a wrong step. And her status as the eldest daughter of Queen Victoria\n\u003cbr\u003e\ndoes little to smooth over the conflicts she faces. \n\u003cbr\u003e\nBut handsome, gallant Fritz is always by her side, as they navigate court intrigue, and challenge the cunning Chancellor Otto von Bismarck,\n\u003cbr\u003e\nwhile fighting for the throne—and the soul of a nation. At home they endure\n\u003cbr\u003e\ntragedy, including their son, Wilhelm, rejecting all they stand for.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nClare\n\u003cbr\u003e\nMcHugh tells the enthralling and riveting story of Victoria, the Princess\n\u003cbr\u003e\nRoyal—from her younger years as the apple of her father Albert's eyes through her rise to power atop the mighty German empire to her final months of\n\u003cbr\u003e\nlife.","brand":"Harper Collins","offers":[{"title":"Used - good","offer_id":53316291133782,"sku":"9780062997609-G","price":2.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/clare-mchugh-most-english-princess-a-9780062997609","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}