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Queen Victoria's Matchmaking
- The Royal Marriages That Shaped Europe
- De: Deborah Cadbury
- Narrado por: Charlotte Strevens
- Duración: 13 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 168
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 147
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 148
A captivating exploration of the role in which Queen Victoria exerted the most international power and influence: as a matchmaking grandmother. Queen Victoria's Matchmaking travels through the glittering, decadent palaces of Europe from London to Saint Petersburg, weaving in scandals, political machinations, and family tensions. It is at once an intimate portrait of a royal family and an examination of the conflict caused by the marriages the Queen arranged. At the heart of it all is Victoria herself: doting grandmother one moment, determined Queen Empress the next.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautifully written and narrated
- De LitLadyK en 01-08-19
- Queen Victoria's Matchmaking
- The Royal Marriages That Shaped Europe
- De: Deborah Cadbury
- Narrado por: Charlotte Strevens
The Royal Marriage Merry-Go-Round!
Revisado: 03-09-25
The British Empire was in its glorious high noon. It is considered the largest empire the world has ever known. It’s Queen-Empress, Victoria, was determined to arrange strategic marriages for her grandchildren to the heirs of various European royalties. It was the Golden Age of the European monarchies; none of the gracious majesties, royal highnesses, and serene highnesses had yet experienced the meatgrinder that was World War I. Several imperiums would fall by war’s end; that of the Russian tsars, that of the Austro-Hungarian archdukes, and that of the German kaisers. That of the Ottoman sultans would also fall, an empire that had been seriously diminished by the beginning of the 20th century.
Narrator Charlotte Strevens brings an understated British cadence and quiet authority to this account of the glittering, yet not always happy lives, of several royalties. I found myself rooting for
Princess Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes, daughter of Duke Franz von Teck, better known as Queen Mary, consort of George V and grandmother to the late Queen Elizabeth II. She was the proverbial poor relation who was headed for certain spinsterhood or at best a marriage to a very minor member of a German ducal house or cadet branch of a royal house. Due to an interesting set of circumstances she became engaged to Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale. Upon his sudden death, the engagement was reassigned to his brother George who had hoped to marry the woman who would become Marie of Romania. Queen Victoria did have five granddaughters who became monarchs themselves: tsarina of Russia, and queens of Romania, Greece, Norway, and Spain. Had another lived, she’d have become queen of Sweden. I suspect Dr. Lucy Worsley OBE must surely have considered a BBC documentary about these illustrious, even tragic, women!
Readers might also enjoy Queen Victoria's Granddaughters: 1860-1918 by Christina Croft, Born to Rule: Five Reigning Consorts, Granddaughters of Queen Victoria by Julia P. Gelardi. Other biographies exist that tell the story of individual granddaughters. The royalties were so entangled and intermarried, but it was not enough to prevent WWI.
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The Apex Warriors
- First of My Kind, Book 5
- De: Marc Stevens
- Narrado por: Ramon De Ocampo
- Duración: 14 h y 46 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 112
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 98
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 98
Nathan Myers and the crew of the Legacy have fought several of the predatory races wreaking havoc on our galaxy. Over the years their enemies have given them many names. Most are born out of spite and fear, but some are out of respect. Now that Nathan and his strike team find themselves battling the invasive Bio-machines of Andromeda, the enemies of all biological life have labeled Nathan and his crew with a new moniker. They call them the Apex Warriors.
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4 out of 5 stars
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entertaining
- De Anonymous User en 04-08-25
- The Apex Warriors
- First of My Kind, Book 5
- De: Marc Stevens
- Narrado por: Ramon De Ocampo
On the Verge of a New Horizon
Revisado: 04-10-23
We join Nathan and his crew of quirky aliens as they continue to battle the strange machine hybrid life from the Andromeda galaxy and even those other races from our own galaxy bent on doing evil and causing mayhem.
This series demonstrates creativity and a love of the military science fiction subgenre. Humor and even romance are present.
I do wonder where the series will go next as I assume there is going to be a book 6. I hope we see more of earth and Nathan’s interactions with its various polities and their machinations. At some point, we should get to visit the Andromeda galaxy to see firsthand the home worlds of the villains.
I wish we had the tech mentioned in this novel; I could sure use some of the medical knowledge and skills, nanos even, that Justice easily manifests.
I do hope the series does not run on indefinitely. I doubt it would turn into another Outlander series, a series that has run since the early 1990s and is not yet concluded; noted for each novel the size of a metropolitan telephone book beautifully read by Davina Porter.
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