Albert is dead and the queen is preparing to spend the rest of her life in mourning. Yet the last years of her reign are to be momentous years.
Palmerston, then Gladstone and Disraeli, govern her empire through the high noon of its heyday.
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Автор: Byrd Sandra , Бирд Сандра
Серия: Ladies in Waiting #2
Язык: английский
Год: 2012
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