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    [year] => 2020
    [artist] => Melanie Clegg
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    [titleId] => 14806735
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    [language] => ENGLISH
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    [title] => Empress Alexandra
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            [1] => Europe
            [2] => Great Britain - Victorian Era (1837-1901)
            [3] => History
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            [5] => Russia & The Former Soviet Union
            [6] => Women
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    [synopsis] => This intimate look at the bond between Queen Victoria and her granddaughter is "full of details regarding many European royals... thoroughly engrossing"(Kathryn J. Atwood, author of Women Heroes of World War II).

When Queen Victoria's second daughter Princess Alice married the Prince Louis of Hesse and Rhine in 1862, even her own mother described the ceremony as "more of a funeral than a wedding," thanks to the fact that it took place shortly after the death of Alice's beloved father, Prince Albert. Sadly, the young princess's misfortunes didn't end there and when she also died prematurely, her four motherless daughters were taken under the wing of their formidable grandmother, Victoria.

Alix, the youngest of Alice's daughters and allegedly one of the most beautiful princesses in Europe, was a special favorite of the elderly queen, who hoped that she would marry her cousin Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and one day reign beside him. However, the spirited and stubborn Alix had other ideas...
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    [subtitle] => The Special Relationship Between Russia's Last Tsarina and Queen Victoria
    [publisher] => Pen & Sword Books
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