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Victoria and Albert’s marriage
“Albert made
Victoria feel that
she was inadequate
– his intellectual
and moral
inferior”
To the outside world, Queen
Victoria and Prince Albert were
the golden couple, exemplars
of traditional family values.
Yet, as Jane Ridley reveals,
behind the romanticised
veneer, Albert’s thirst for power
was putting the marriage under BRIDGEMAN
intense pressure
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