![]() ![]() After the Prince Consort’s death, his daughter Alice antagonizes her mother by wondering loudly and frequently why Victoria maintains that he died of typhoid when there are other, more sinister possibilities. The man behind all this mayhem, possibly at the request of the Queen, is Count von Stühlen, who does not shrink from two more murders and a touch of royal blackmail. Patrick’s law quarters are ransacked and his law partner set upon and killed. Georgiana, the ward of barrister Patrick Fitzgerald, who had the effrontery to defend Victoria’s would-be assassin 20 years back, has her correspondence stolen, then burned. ![]() ![]() Georgiana Armistead, a young woman who studied medicine in Edinburgh before Albert sent her to Cannes to see his son, Prince Leopold, who suffered from “the German disease” of hemophilia. The Prince had long enjoyed a private correspondence with Dr. An enquiry into the death of Queen Victoria’s beloved Prince Consort.Ībandoning Jane Austen for the nonce, Barron trains her historical microscope on the House of Hanover, the Saxe-Coburg line and bedtime indiscretions that may have put Victoria unjustly on the throne and turned Prince Albert’s mind to suicide. ![]()
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