"Gillian Gill's double biography, We Two, is intimate and delicious. In this absorbing book, Gillian Gill shows how the royal couple counterpoised their partnership-and their passion-for twenty-one years while bearing the weight of the world on their shoulders." -Daniel Mark Epstein, author of The Lincolns: Portrait of a Marriage Gill skillfully shows exactly how she did it." -Stella Tillyard, author of A Royal Affair and The Aristocrats
After Albert's early death Victoria set about creating an enduring legend of her marriage and inevitably emerged as both heroine and victor. Her book is the story not just of a marriage and a family but also of the way in which Victoria appeared to grant Albert precedence but ultimately came to control the relationship. She is particularly good on the couple's later life and their relationships with their many children. Gill grippingly recounts the tensions and negotiations between Victoria and Albert, both in politics and in intimate and domestic life, as they tried to reconcile this contradiction. She makes us understand that it was a union constantly pulled between two contradictory imperatives: the need for the Queen to be supreme head of state and Albert her subject, and the requirement that the nineteenth-century wife should be her husband's subordinate in every way. "Gillian Gill has written a superbly accessible account of the marriage of Queen Victoria and Albert of Saxe-Coburg.
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