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In Triumph's Wake: Royal Mothers, Tragic Daughters, and the Price They Paid for Glory (Hardcover)

by Julia P. Gelardi (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 432 pages
  • Publisher: St. Martin's Press (25 Nov 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0312371055
  • ISBN-13: 978-0312371050
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16.3 x 4.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 276,341 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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2.0 out of 5 stars What for ? - Quite a disappointment, 8 Jan 2009
By Klaus van Amelrode "kmcva" - See all my reviews
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I am usually sceptical about these kind of books as I always found compilations of biographies disappointing. They always seem to promise a lot and in the end give little.

While Julia Gelardi's first book "Born to rule" did not disappoint, this one clearly does.

In "Born to rule" Julia Gelardi focused on 5 granddaughters of Queen Victoria and showed where differences and the similarities lay. In her new book she deals with three pairs of royal mothers and daughters: Queen Isabella of Castile and her daughter Catherine of Aragon, Henry VIII's first Queen, Empress Maria Theresa and Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, and Queen Victoria and her eldest daughter, the German Empress Frederick. Putting these three different pairs in one book can only be justified that they were all royal and that the fate of the daughters were not as happy as predicted when they were married off. But otherwise there is no connection and one has to ask oneself what purpose does it serve.

The book does not present new facts or interesting inside which have not been covered elsewhere. Better biographies and studies have been written about these ladies. It makes rather average read and for those having a bit of knowledge already it is pretty boring actually. This applies to her style of writing as well. I was rather tempted not finishing it al all. All in all, this is a book which is neither here nor there. It is not really bad, but I can honestly not recommended it, at least not for the price of the hardcover.
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