HEART OF A QUEEN: QUEEN VICTORIA’ S ROMANTIC ATTACHMENTS
Book ID/图书代码： 00530014B75988
English Summary/英文概要： ’My nature’, wrote Queen Victoria, ’is too passionate, my emotions too fervent, and I am a person who has to cling to someone in order to find peace and comfort.’
It is with this aspect of the Queen’s complex character that Theo Aronson’s new study is concerned. For never, not even in old age, was Queen Victoria the dour, censorious puritan of popular imagination; within that dumpy, uncompromising-looking figure beat a very susceptible heart. She had, and again the words are her own, ’very violent feelings of affection’.
To Queen Victoria, the love, no less than the guidance, attention and protection of a man, was all but indispensable. In the course of her long life, there were six men with whom her emotions were romantically involved. There were her first prime minister, the urbane Lord Melbourne; her husband, the idealistic Prince Albert; her fellow sovereign, the fascinating Napoleon III; her gillie, the rough-hewn John Brown; another prime minister, the silver-tongued Disraeli; and her Indian servant, the exotic Munshi.
The appeal to Queen Victoria of these six apparently disparate characters was that they were men of distinctive personality: there was something exceptional, something outré about each of them. And they all - and this was probably their greatest attraction in the eyes of Queen Victoria - treated her as a woman first, a queen second.
By focusing on the Queen’s romantic associations and by making full use of recently revealed material, Theo Aronson has painted a fresh, intriguing and startlingly different portrait of Queen Victoria. With his talent for narrative and characterization, he has produced one of the most incisive and readable of his many royal biographies.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 对于维多利亚女王来说，爱情，不亚于引导，一个男人的保护和关注，是所有这些元素中必不可少的一部分。在她漫长的人生之旅中，有六名男子和她有着千丝万缕的情感纠葛。首当其冲的便是英国第一任首相，温文尔雅的墨尔本勋爵；她的丈夫，理想主义者阿尔伯特王子；和她同样拥有君权
的迷人的拿破仑三世；她的侍从，粗枝大叶的约翰•布朗；另一位首相大人，能言善辩的迪斯雷利；和她的印度奴仆，有着异国情调的Munshi。这些吸引维多利亚女王的六位男士看似身份等级不同，但都个性鲜明：但也有例外的情况，一些不走寻常路的。或许这就是他们能吸引维多利亚注目的，奉若神明的缘由吧。
充分利用现有的资料，聚焦于女王的浪漫幽会，西奥•阿伦森为我们绘制了一副生动的，有趣的，和另类的维多利亚女王肖像。(Sandy)
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About the Author/作者介绍： 西奥•阿伦森是为数不多的一位能获得皇室认可的一位传记作者。作为一位拉脱维亚的犹太店主儿子，他出生在南非的柯克伍德，与奈杰尔•霍桑在开普敦大学求学之前，曾就读于伊丽莎白港高中。在约翰内斯堡，他和J.Walter Thompson成为了一名商业广告艺术家，随后搬到了伦敦，在那里他还做过兼职服务员。西奥从学生时代起就对皇室充满了兴趣。1947年他在柯克伍德岔道，目睹了当时的英国国王和王后，以及伊丽莎白和玛格丽特公主，被当时人群中伊丽莎白公主的超凡魅力所吸引。几年后，他前往汉普郡的法恩伯勒的圣米迦勒修道院，瞻仰了拿破仑三世的陵墓后，决定从此励志撰写有关皇室的传记。
由于其文笔娴熟细致，文风雅致幽默，遂即逐渐成为皇室忠实的记录者，甚至被是视作为是皇室的铁杆仰慕者。他对很多皇室成员做过访问，其中包括，阿斯隆的伯爵夫人，爱丽丝公主（1981年，在其逝世后不久所发表的传记），皇太后，和玛格丽特公主，以及几个宫廷侍臣。这位短小精干的男人所醉心地聆听着所有的这些受访的者的陈述，在互动中，轻微地阿谀之词之间，而绝非是沉闷地恭维。
作者身前共著有23本书，在塞默塞特郡的弗罗姆去世，享年73岁。
Theo Aronson is the author of over twenty works of royal historical biography, published in eleven languages. Among the widely read are Grandmama of Europe, The King in Love, Napoleon and Josephine and a biography of Princess Margaret. In the course of researching and writing these books he has interviewed major and minor members of Britain’s royal family and members of the royal households, as well as various officials, servants, friends and others whose lives are in some way connected with the monarchy.
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