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Jilly Bond Narrates The Lives and Deaths of the Princesses of Hesse

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 Jilly Bond Narrates The Lives and Deaths of the Princesses of Hesse 

Jilly Bond narrates The Lives and Deaths of the Princesses of Hesse by Frances Welch

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Named one of The Telegraph’s ‘Best Biographies of the Year 2024’

Queen Victoria had forty-two grandchildren but the four Princesses of Hesse were held in her particular favour. After the sudden death of her daughter Alice, Queen Victoria took an obsessive interest in the marriage prospects of the four girls their mother had left behind, hoping this might secure for them a happy future. And each of the young women did indeed marry into a European dynasty: the Romanovs and the Hohenzollerns of Germany. However no one could have foreseen how the maelstrom of the twentieth century would bring tragedy and heartache to each one of them in turn.

Drawing on hundreds of previously unseen letters from the sisters as well as from their grandmother Queen Victoria, The Princesses of Hesse takes us on a sweeping journey across the tumultuous landscape of the turn of the century – from the dramas of the Russian Court to the Russian Revolution, and through both World Wars in which the sisters often found themselves on opposing sides.

Both intimate and epic in scope, Frances Welch’s biography sheds new light on the four sisters’ lives, illuminating a remarkable period of history in the process.

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