Letters to Vicky (First Folio Society Edition, Signed)

Queen Victoria’s letters to her eldest daughter, from the Princess Royal’s marriage into the Prussian court to the year of both women’s deaths, selected and introduced by the historian Andrew Roberts and signed by him.

Victoria Princess Royal, known in the family as Vicky, married Prince Frederick of Prussia in 1858 and left England for Berlin. The letters that passed between her and her mother over the next forty-three years form one of the great dynastic correspondences of the nineteenth century. Vicky’s husband reigned briefly as Frederick III in 1888, and her son became Wilhelm II. The queen wrote to her about politics, family and Prussia, and about the court she had left. The Folio edition does not offer new transcriptions. It is abridged from six earlier published compilations, issued between 1964 and 1990 (Dearest Child to Beloved & Darling Child), with Roberts selecting and introducing. His signature to the title is the only manuscript feature of this copy.

VICTORIA, Queen. Letters to Vicky. The Correspondence between Queen Victoria and her Daughter Victoria, Empress of Germany, 1858–1901. Selected and introduced by Andrew Roberts.

First Folio Society edition, signed by Roberts (the editor) to the title. Octavo. xxxiv, 749pp., with colour and black-and-white photographs and a large folding genealogical chart to the rear. Royal blue buckram, decorated to the cover and spine in gold and red, in the publisher’s black slipcase. Fine. A clean and bright copy throughout. The slipcase shows some mild shelf markings.

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Catalogue Number: HH000950