Through this medium, we gain access to lost rooms which were in the context of their time, strictly accessible to those who were allowed to enter them. The sentimental and for us, a significant tradition of the commissioning of watercolours to record the interior decoration of any room, was highly popularised in aristocratic circles in the nineteenth century and allows us to see how these – in some cases long vanished – rooms, once looked. The furnishing of this most private of spaces – usually the penultimate room in the sequence of rooms which defined through architecture, the level of privilege through the degree to which you were allowed to penetrate – enables us to see what the Queen (in this case) chose for these exclusively personal spheres, in which she woke, slept, gave birth and would ultimately, die. Many key moments in Queen Victoria’s life also took place in her bedrooms, which help in no small way, to tell the story of that life. This new examination will restore her to her proper prominence-as Queen Victoria's second consort.A bedroom gives a uniquely personal insight into any historical personality and a royal personage no less so. Sadly, Beatrice inherited from her mother the hemophilia gene, which she passed on to two of her four sons and which her daughter Victoria Eugenia, in marrying Alfonso XIII of Spain, in turn passed on to the Spanish royal family. And although Victoria tried to prevent Beatrice even so much as thinking of love, her guard slipped when Beatrice met Prince Henry of Battenberg.
Beatrice succumbed to her mother's obsessive love, so that by the time she was in her late teens she was her constant companion and running her mother's office, which meant that when Victoria died her daughter became literary executor, a role she conducted with Teutonic thoroughness. Victoria was not above laying it down regally even with her own children.
Her father died when she was four and Victoria came to depend on her youngest daughter absolutely, and also demanded from her complete submission. An engrossing biography of Queen Victoria's youngest daughter that focuses on her relationship with her willful mother-a powerful and insightful look into two women of significant importance and influence in world history.īeatrice was the last child born to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
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