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9780312324230

Born to Rule : Five Reigning Consorts, Granddaughters of Queen Victoria

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  • ISBN13:

    9780312324230

  • ISBN10:

    0312324235

  • Format: Trade Book
  • Copyright: 2005-03-19
  • Publisher: St. Martin's Press
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Summary

Julia Gelardi's Born to Rule is the Powerful Epic story of five royal granddaughters of Queen Victoria, who reigned over the end of their empires, the destruction of their families, and the tumult of the twentieth century

Author Biography

Julia Gelardi was born in Manila, Phillipines, and educated in the United States and Canada. An independent historian and author, she lives with her husband and two daughters in Plymouth, Minnesota.

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
DRAMATIS PERSONAE xi
SIMPLIFIED GENEALOGICAL TABLE xvi
INTRODUCTION xix
PART I Sovereigns in the Making: The Formative Years (1869-1901) 1(90)
One More Mother Than Grandmother
3(11)
Two "Mad. Never Mind."
14(14)
Three "Gangan"
28(10)
Four In Pursuit of Alix
38(22)
Five "Maud Could Not Have Done Better"
60(15)
Six "Too Painful to Bear"
75(16)
PART II Trials and Tribulations (1901-1914) 91(106)
Seven Splendid Isolation
93(9)
Eight Embattled but Not Defeated
102(12)
Nine The Facade Crumbles
114(9)
Ten Destiny Beckons
123(15)
Eleven Baptism of Fire
138(7)
Twelve Norway's English Queen
145(8)
Thirteen Revolutionary Fever
153(9)
Fourteen "La Reina Hermosa"
162(11)
Fifteen "Mamma, Help Me!"
173(12)
Sixteen Before the Storm
185(12)
PART III On the Throne: Disaster and Triumph (1914-1920) 197(92)
Seventeen Balkan Cauldron
199(17)
Eighteen "Hold My Hand That I May Have Courage"
216(10)
Nineteen Neutral North and South
226(9)
Twenty Beleaguered and Betrayed
235(17)
Twenty-one The Abyss
252(8)
Twenty-two Death at Ekaterinburg
260(12)
Twenty-three "Mamma Regina"
272(17)
PART IV Denouement (1920-1969) 289(94)
Twenty-four Capitulation Again
291(14)
Twenty-five "Too Sad"
305(9)
Twenty-six "I Would Never Leave England"
314(17)
Twenty-seven "I Thought I Had Done Well"
331(13)
Twenty-eight "The God Within Us!"
344(10)
Twenty-nine "I Bless You with My Last Breath"
354(17)
Thirty From Exile to "Viva la Reina!"
371(12)
EPILOGUE 383(4)
NOTES 387(40)
BIBLIOGRAPHY 427(14)
INDEX 441

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