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Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany (1853-84), is acknowledged to have been the most intelligent and probably the most interesting of Queen Victoria's four sons. He was the youngest and a strong-willed attractive character, with an immense thirst for life. He was also, however, the first haemophilia sufferer in the royal family and endured continual ill health; as if haemophilia was not enough, he was also epileptic. In this biography, Charlotte Zeepvat has drawn on sources to reveal a compelling human story which also touches on the wider worlds of late 19th-century Oxford and of literature, art and politics in the Victorian period. In particular, it examines the question of haemophilia and the royal family. There are many questions to answer, such as when did the Queen and Prince Albert realize their youngest son was ill and how much did they understand of his illness? Some of Leopold's early attacks were described as "rheumatism" - was this an attempt to keep the truth concealed or a genuine misunderstanding? The book also presents a full and balanced picture of Leopold's relationship with his mother. Letters already published provide snapshots of individual quarrels between mother and son but no one has yet considered the relationship as a whole. Finally it eamines Leopold's life at Oxford, the varied and interesting friendships he developed there (with, among others, Charles Dodgson - "Lewis Carroll" - John Ruskin and Oscar Wilde), his political views and the importance of his work as unofficial secretary to the Queen.
- Sales Rank: #1768372 in Books
- Brand: Brand: The History Press
- Published on: 1998-01-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.56" h x .86" w x 6.40" l,
- Binding: Hardcover
- 224 pages
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About the Author
Charlotte Zeepvat is a freelance writer and Deputy Editor of the magazine Royalty Digest. She is the author of Queen Victoria's Family, Romanov Autumn, The Camera and the Tsars and Royal Governesses. She lives in Sussex.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
A sensitive portrayal
By P. B. Sharp
Charlotte Zeepvat's well written biography is a refreshing approach because Prince Leopold, Queen Victoria's youngest son is so little known as are many of the circumstances of his particular life. For instance you learn on the very first page that Leopold, while at Oxford, perhaps fell in love with a girl named Alice. That Alice was Alice Liddell, the inspiration for "Alice in Wonderland." The three Liddell girls were all beautiful and talented and Edith, the oldest one may actually have been Leopold's love. Leopold could not marry her, of course, as she was a commoner. Interestingly, when he married years later,Leopold named his daughter Alice and Alice Liddell herself, upon marrying, named her second son Leopold and Leopold was godfather to the baby. Leopold's beloved sister was named Alice, so little Alice's namesake is up for grabs but it's fun to speculate! However Zeepvat says the little girl was named after his sister. Lewis Carroll took one of the photos included in the book, of Leopold at Christ Church,Oxford in his academic gown. Dean Liddell was dean of that college.
This biography although written about the obscure Prince who did not live long enough to put his stamp on the world, offers the reader a fine atmosphere of Victorian England and especially royal Victorian England. Much of the information is new, the same old chestnuts included in every book about Victoria are replaced by a lot of obscure detail which other reviewers found boring, but the real Victorian aficionado will be happy to include "Leopold" in his Victorian stable and be happy to learn the details.
Queen Victoria put great store by attractive looks perhaps because she was so phenomenally plain herself. Little Leopold from the day of his birth disappointed her. He was not a robust baby like the rest of her brood. She thought he was "common" looking with his prominent nose. As he grew she thought he was awkward, clumsy, willful.When she learned of his illness, hemophilia, she virtually tried to orchestrate his life.I have always been indulgent of Queen Victoria, and although I knew she tried to keep her married children on as short a leash as possible, her attempt to muzzle her youngest son was an on-going act of pure selfishness. Since he was often not able to walk or moved with pain, the awkwardness was finally explained by the discovery of his horrible bleeding disease, hemophilia. Instead of being "common" looking, whatever that means, Leopold was actually quite handsome and he was tall, too, taller than the Prince of Wales.
The besieged prince also had epilepsy, the petit mal form, presumably. One time he had a fit and cut himself with a pair of scissors he was holding causing a wound from which he almost bled to death. In hemophilia the blood does not clot and any internal bleeding episode, say from a kidney, caused not only intense pain but a high fever. Injuries to his knees after the smallest of bumps meant he could not walk for weeks, sometimes months. Victoria smothered Leopold with constant surveillance and as he grew up Leopold strained uselessly against the shackles.
Victoria, in spite of having so many babies herself did not understand children or relate to them.When Leopold had been sent to warm Cannes at eight years old because the cold wet climate of England and especially Scotland where Balmoral is, caused him endless pains in his joints, his father Prince Albert died. Totally ignoring the grief the little boy must have felt, Victoria sent him atrocious letters in which she concentrated on her own wretchedness. She writes this to an eight year old: "My wretchedness, my miserable existence is not one to write about." But she does write about it, over and over. Once when Leopold was younger and in bed after an attack the Queen sent him of all things, a tea set. Comically when Leopold grew up he became interested in fine China and collected it.
For many years Leopold was at loggerheads with his mother. He writes in his diary "VR arrived and I fled." He acted as her private secretary intermittently. She would yank him out of Oxford in order to accompany her to Balmoral. His illness meant he was often unable to attend classes and lectures, but he obtained his Oxford degree, the only one of the Queen's sons to graduate from university.
Many famous people tread these pages including Ruskin and Disraeli and the Reverend Dodgson. Leopold's love for children and his nieces and nephews endear him to the reader. In a horrible irony, his little godson Fritzie, his sister Alice's youngest son, had hemophilia. The little boy at two years old fell out an open window to the pavement below. A normal child would have survived the fall, but Fritzie hit his head and was dead that afternoon. Then a few years later Leopold's niece May, Alice's daughter and Leopold's godchild died of diphtheria. Death hovered very close to Leopold but he "lived, laughed, argued and danced."
Leopold mixed with many artistic and cultured Victorians. He himself had a beautiful singing voice and when he was courting Helen of Waldeck he proposed to her by singing a Tosti Italian love song. He had spent two years looking for a wife and suffered heart break when he was turned down by princesses who could not cope with his hemophilia. The Prussian princess Helen was the perfect match for Leopold and with his marriage he entered a period of intense happiness. He had welcomed his daughter Alice but in a trip to Cannes where he went to partake of a little warmth for his ravaged joints, he slipped and fell and then suffered a seizure. His body had endured all it could stand and Leopold died, aged thirty. A son was born posthumously.
Don't miss this biography of a loveable prince! Included in the narrative are many delicious tidbits about the players on this unique stage. For instance Empress Alexandra, Leopold's niece, his sister Alice's daughter, was wearing on her wrist two bracelets Leopold had given her long ago when she was shot with the rest of her family by the Bolsheviks in 1918. So it could be said a little part of Leopold died in that awful cellar, too.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
Prince Leopold and Her Majesty, Mrs. Brown
By Errol Levine
This well-researched and detailed book by Charlotte Zeepvat makes for sometimes tedious and uninspiring reading. Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, was Queen Victoria's youngest son. The book makes clear that he was doubly unfortunate in having Queen Victoria as his mother. Firstly, she passed on to him the gene for Hemophilia Type B (Christmas disease) which caused him a life of debilitating suffering. Secondly, the Queen regarded Prince Leopold as nothing more than an unpaid servant whom she expected to be at her beck and call. Like other members of the Royal family, he was required to obtain the Queen's permission for even the smallest ventures in his life. Ms. Zeepvat makes clear that the Queen used Prince Leopold's illness as a weapon to stifle him in every way possible and to prevent him from leading a reasonable life despite his hemophilia.
Queen Victoria emerges from this book as the very worst of mothers and one cannot but feel a sense of sympathy with this young man. His only happy times occurred when he was able to escape briefly from his mother's control such as during his brief period at Oxford University. The Queen was no doubt correct in preventing Leopold from achieving his aspirations of becoming Governor-General of Canada or possibly Governor of Victoria in Australia since his poor health really precluded him from performing such difficult duties. One cannot also disagree with Prime Minister Gladstone's comments in the House that "princes should be content to perform great decorative offices" leaving the real jobs to the elected government and its appointees. However, the Queen's pettiness, cruelty and selfishness in regard to other more minor matters were monumental. The mother-son conflict pervades every page of this book.
My main criticism of this book is that it ends so abruptly almost as if the author had tired of her subject. Prince Leopold died after a fall in Cannes and the book ends shortly after that. Since so much of the book is devoted to the mother-son relationship it would have been interesting to know whether the Queen in her voluminous and endless correspondence with her daughter, the German Empress Victoria, and other scattered members of her family ever expressed any remorse over her treatment of her youngest son or whether she simply felt that she had lost another servant.
Indeed, the Queen's affections for her Highlander servants, principally the brothers John Brown and Archie Brown, seem to have far exceeded those she felt for her children as portrayed in the excellent film "Her Majesty, Mrs. Brown." Indeed, the Queen permitted these Highlanders to treat Prince Leopold and her other children with great impudence and they had no recourse because their mother would hear nothing bad about her Highlanders. The Highlanders were deeply hated by Prince Leopold and all the Queen's other children.
Another defect of the premature termination of the book is that we learn next to nothing about Prince Leopold's two children resulting from his brief and happy marriage to Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont. This material should have been presented in an Epilogue. A genealogical table showing Prince Leopold's descendants would also have been most useful. His two children are in some ways more interesting than their father. The first born, Princess Alice (later Countess of Athlone) had a fairly distinguished career serving with her husband (Prince Alexander of Teck and later Earl of Athlone) when he was Governor-General of both South Africa and Canada. Princess Alice passed on the hemophilia gene (inherited from her father) to one and possibly two of her sons.
Leopold's son, Charles Edward, became Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, after the death of his uncle, Alfred (Leopold's older brother). Unfortunately, he became an ardent admirer of Hitler at an early stage and has been described as Hitler's favorite royal. He joined the Nazi Party in 1935 and became a member of the SA (Brownshirts), rising to the rank of Obergruppenführer. He also served as a member of the Reichstag from 1937 to 1945. When World War II ended, the American Military Government in Bavaria placed Charles Edward under house arrest because of his Nazi activities. His sister, Princess Alice, learning of his incarceration, came to Germany with her husband to plead for his release with his American captors. Despite her attempts at intervention, Charles Edward was rightfully sentenced by a denazification court, heavily fined and almost bankrupted losing also the family property in Gotha.
Ms. Zeepvat gets the medical details largely correct. She attempts to show that hemophilia may have occurred in Queen Victoria's ancestors in the female line, but eventually admits that there is no real case to be made for this argument. Her other argument that the mutant gene for Hemophilia Type B originated with Queen Victoria and her father, the Duke of Kent, is far more reasonable and more widely accepted. Ms. Zeepvat traces the hemophilia gene in the Russian Imperial family where the Tsarevich Alexei inherited the gene from Queen Victoria's granddaughter, the Empress Alexandra. She shows also how the gene affected the Royal families of Spain and Germany through two other granddaughters, namely, Queen Ena of Spain and Princess Irene of Prussia.
This book is a useful contribution to knowledge about a relatively unknown member of the British Royal family. I would, however, recommend it only to those readers who have a strong interest in the activities and lives of minor royal personages.
42 of 43 people found the following review helpful.
Great Bio of a little known royal
By Moe811
In the many books about Queen Victoria's family that I have read, Leopold seems to be known only for his haemophilia. He seems to have been the most popular member within the royal family, although not with his mother, who seemed to see him as a convenient drone. She was notorious for trying to keep her children on a leash long into adulthood. Leopold appears to have overcome these obstacles. In his short life, he accomplished a great deal, he was the first of the royal family to attend Oxford, he was on the boards of a great many charities, he managed to travel, and he worked as an unofficial secretary to his mother.
This is a well written and researched book. The author provides information on other more obscure members of Queen Victoria's family, such as her half sister Feodora and her family. The family tree of the female side of Victoria's family is the most extensive and interesting I have seen, although it does not solve the question of where the haemophilia in the family came from.
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