The Coburg Connection
Richard Shannon, 5 April 1984
Albert, Prince Consort
by Robert Rhodes James.
Hamish Hamilton, 311 pp., £15, November 1983,0 241 11000 9 Show More
by Robert Rhodes James.
Hamish Hamilton, 311 pp., £15, November 1983,
“... prospect opened when Leopold’s sister Julia married Constantine, the younger brother of Emperor Alexander I: but that, too, turned sour in separation and divorce the ci-devant Grand Duchess featured occasionally as ‘poor Aunt Julia’ in her niece Victoria’s correspondence. The pride of the Coburg system was always the English connection. The distraught ... ”