Back to category: History

Limited version - please login or register to view the entire paper.

Queen Victoria

Queen Victoria
Richard Hough is a well-known naval historian. Mr. Hough was researching a book when he met Mountbatten, the great uncle of Prince Charles. He was commissioned to write authorized biographies of Mountbatten’s parents, Louis and Victoria. Hough was training in Los Angeles flying school in 1941 and celebrated his twenty-first birthday shooting down two German fighter-bombers. It was in 1947 he started his career in publishing, writing many children’s books and writing for the newspaper. Hough died at the age of seventy-seven, after writing more than ninety books, one of which was Victoria and Albert.
Born into a family filled with high-risk taking and great debt, Victoria was both the object of joy and anxiety. In Kensington Palace on May 24, 1819, Victoria was born to her parents Edward, the Duke of Kent and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg. This after six and a half hours of labor, Victoria was described as “a pretty little princess as plump as a...

Posted by: Sean Wilson

Limited version - please login or register to view the entire paper.