Prince Arthur was Queen Victoria's favourite sone, the Duke of Wellington's Godson, Edward VII's brother, George V's uncle and the great-uncle of Edward VIII and George VI. His life holds a mirror to personalities and developments of nearly a century from the Crimean War to the Battle of Alamein. Highly sociable, an accurate observer and inveterate correspondent and diarist, his view is of a unique spectrum of peple from President Taft to the Emperor of Japan, Lord Wolsely to Arabi Pasha, Ethel Smyth to Melba, Gladys Deacon to Nancy Astor, Rudyard Kipling to Lord Esher, Gladstone to John Brown. He fought at the battle of Tel-el-Kebir, served in India and was a principal actor in the drama of the Esher army reforms. As Governor-General of Canada (1911-16) he calmed tensions between British and French Canadians and resolved disputes between Canada and USA through his easy access to the White House. He inaugurated the Indian constitutional reforms in 1921. His life also offers an insight into the development of the monarchy and the ways of the Sovereign in relation to the political and social life of the nation over a long period.
His descendants are the King of Sweden and the Queen of Denmark.
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Verlagsort
Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
Illustrationen
59 colour plates, 4 black & white illustrations
Maße
Höhe: 234 mm
Breite: 156 mm
Dicke: 45 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-85683-136-2 (9780856831362)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Childhood 1850-1861; tutelage 1862-1866; military and imperial training 1867-1870; lessons in courtship 1870-1877; a real bed of orang flowers 1877-1879; marriage 1879-1882; the battle of Tel-El-Kebir 1882; divisional command in India 1883-1885; the Bombay command 1885-1890; on round the world 1890; home commands 1890-1989; the Coburg succession, the Irish command and the Queen's death 1989-1904; inspector-general of the forces and the Mediterranean command 1904-1909; in the shade 1909-1911; first in the land of the premier dominion 1911-1913; Canada the empire and the war 1913-1914; oh Canada 1915-1916; a new way of life 1916-1930; finale 1931-1942.