A Most English Princess
Book Feature - A Most English Princess by Clare McHugh
HBL Note: I’ll be interviewing the author of A Most English Princess, Clare McHugh, in partnership with the St. Louis County Library, HEC-TV, and The Novel Neighbor (my bookstore of choice in STL!) on Thursday, October 1, 2020 at 7 PM CDT. I hope you’ll join us! Click here for more information about that event. I’m excited to ask her about all things history, fiction, and especially the eldest daughter of Queen Victoria! Scroll down to read all about A Most English Princess, the debut novel for Clare McHugh who, before writing her first piece of fiction, worked as a journalist, magazine editor, and history teacher.
Book Feature - A Most English Princess by Clare McHugh
Book Feature - A Most English Princess by Clare McHugh
From the publisher:
While Queen Victoria has been the subject of countless biographies, the leading character in best-selling historical novels, the magnificently bejeweled star of Hollywood films, and the center of a hypnotizing PBS series, very little has been recounted of the life of Princess Victoria, or “Vicky” as she was called, the eldest of the nine children of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
In A MOST ENGLISH PRINCESS: A Novel of Queen Victoria’s Daughter (William Morrow, September 22, 2020), Clare McHugh imagines the life of the young, self-assured and inquisitive Princess. Growing up in the Royal Court, the apple of her father’s eye, she left England to become her Imperial Royal Highness the German Empress and Queen of Prussia, wife of Frederick III, the German Kaiser.
Princess Victoria was a determined, idealistic woman whose impact on history is too often over-looked. At the center of the Prussian royal family and with a progressive outlook shaped by her father, she had a profound and lasting influence on politics and German unity in an emergent modern Europe.
Book Feature - A Most English Princess by Clare McHugh
