His Royal Highness The Duke of Connaught and Strathearn
Arthur, Hertog van Connaught en Strathearn, de zevende van negen kinderen van koningin Victoria en Albert, prins-gemaal, werd geboren in 1850 en stierf in 1942. De favoriete zoon van zijn moeder, zoals ze bij verschillende gelegenheden vrijelijk toegaf, diende veertig jaar in het Britse leger, en was gouverneur-generaal van Canada van 1911 tot 1916. Getrouwd met prinses Louise Margaretha van Pruisen, die hem voorging, werd hun oudste dochter prinses Margaret kroonprinses van Zweden, en dus grootmoeder van Carl XVI Gustav, koning van Zweden. Astons biografie, gepubliceerd in 1929, dertien jaar voor de dood van de hertog, was meer dan zestig jaar de enige studie die ooit over hem is geschreven. Hoewel onvermijdelijk onkritisch, en ondanks dat het is geschreven met de hulp van 'Evelyn Graham', die later werd ontmaskerd als een beruchte vertrouwensbedrieger,
Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, the seventh of nine children of Queen Victoria and Albert, Prince Consort, was born in 1850 and died in 1942. His mother's favorite son, as she freely admitted on several occasions, served forty years in the British Army, and was Governor General of Canada from 1911 to 1916. Married to Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia, who preceded him, their eldest daughter Princess Margaret became Crown Princess of Sweden, and thus grandmother of Carl XVI Gustav, King of Sweden . Aston's biography, published in 1929, thirteen years before the Duke's death, was the only study ever written of him for over sixty years. Though inevitably uncritical, and despite being written with the help of 'Evelyn Graham', who was later exposed as a notorious confidant,
Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, the seventh of nine children of Queen Victoria and Albert, Prince Consort, was born in 1850 and died in 1942. His mother's favorite son, as she freely admitted on several occasions, served forty years in the British Army, and was Governor General of Canada from 1911 to 1916. Married to Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia, who preceded him, their eldest daughter Princess Margaret became Crown Princess of Sweden, and thus grandmother of Carl XVI Gustav, King of Sweden . Aston's biography, published in 1929, thirteen years before the Duke's death, was the only study ever written of him for over sixty years. Though inevitably uncritical, and despite being written with the help of 'Evelyn Graham', who was later exposed as a notorious confidant,
Auteur | | George Aston |
Taal | | Engels |
Type | | Paperback |
Categorie | | Biografieën & Waargebeurd |