6/5/2023 0 Comments We Two by Gillian Gill![]() ![]() At seventeen, charming rather than beautiful, Victoria already “showed signs of wanting her own way.” Albert, the boy who had been groomed for her since birth, was chubby, self-absorbed, and showed no interest in girls, let alone this princess. The cousins first met as teenagers for a few brief, awkward, chaperoned weeks in 1836. The love affair that emerges is far more captivating, complex, and relevant than that depicted in any previous account. ![]() Now renowned chronicler Gillian Gill turns this familiar story on its head, revealing a strong, feisty queen and a brilliant, fragile prince working together to build a family based on support, trust, and fidelity, qualities neither had seen much of as children. Traditional biographies tell us that Queen Victoria inherited the throne as a naïve teenager, when the British Empire was at the height of its power, and seemed doomed to find failure as a monarch and misery as a woman until she married her German cousin Albert and accepted him as her lord and master. ![]() It was the most influential marriage of the nineteenth century-and one of history’ s most enduring love stories. A fascinating portrait of a genuine love match, but one in which the partners dealt with surprisingly modern issues.” ![]()
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