Dearest Vicky, Darling Fritz: Queen Victoria's Eldest Daughter and the German Emperor

by John van der Kiste

Book Overview

This engaging new biography is the first to tell the tragic love story of the royal couple against the changing background of nineteenth-century Germany.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0750930527
• ISBN13: 9780750930529
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.0" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

JUST SO SAD

i felt so bad how vicky and fritz were treated by his family and country,if given a chance they could had did many great things for their country.they marriege was one few love matchs in europe.but the cruelity by their oldest son who belittled undermine his own parents.vicky losing two childern brought tears to my heart.

Very Sad Story-But Good

Dearest Vicky Darling Fritz was a very interesting book and also very informative. When reading it I felt very sad for Vicky and Fritz for all the things they had to go threw, such as children who made trouble for them, a minister who did not like them, Fritz's father who would not give them the respect they diserved, and to top it off Fritz's death of cancer four months after becoming Kaiser Fredrick III.

Poor Vicky

It was a rarity indeed that a royal marriage would be a happy one; that was never the idea of alliances such as the one between Victoria, Princess Royal, and Crown Prince Frederich of Prussia--but a happy marriage is exactly what they had. A partnership between a good man and an exceptionally intelligent, perceptive, loving woman. Vicky was maligned in her adopted country, gossiped about, belittled, and ultimately emotionally abused by her two eldest children, but she remained a remarkable woman nonetheless. This is a fascinating book about a devoted couple.