Deborah Cadbury is the author of eight acclaimed books, including Chocolate Wars; The Dinosaur Hunters; The Lost King of France; Seven Wonders of the Industrial World, for which her accompanying BBC series received a BAFTA nomination; and Princes at War. As a BBC TV producer and executive producer, she has won numerous international awards, including an Emmy. She lives in London.
"Queen Victoria's Matchmaking is a look at royalty when it still
had a somewhat mystical aura-these people who were both the state
and their own particular selves-and a fascinating angle on a time
of ferment, when the wheels were finally, permanently coming off
this way of running nations...Forget The Crown-what I really want
is a Netflix show based on all these royal grandchildren."
--Kelly Faircloth, Pictorial
"A rich history of Queen Victoria's canny use of political
power."--Bookpage
"Fantastic...In lively and page-turning prose, author Deborah
"Chocolate Wars" Cadbury confirms her place as a leading historian
of Britain as she pulls Queen Victoria out of caricature and into
our hearts."--Randy Dotinga, Christian Science Monitor
"Ms. Cadbury stresses the human element of her story, not least the
wayward personalities and unforeseen family rivalries that thwarted
Victoria's designs as a monarch and matriarch... Many vivid pen
portraits."--William Anthony Hay, Wall Street Journal
[An] absorbing book... The fall of the Romanovs occupies the superb
last pages of Cadbury's book... Dynastic mergers, we may deduce
from Deborah Cadbury's account, offer no defence against the whims
of history. This catastrophe-laced slice of royal history offers a
ripping read.--Miranda Seymour, The Observer
Cadbury's account of Victoria's attempts to bend her unruly
grandchildren to her matrimonial will is the stuff of
melodrama...covered with verve and insight by Deborah Cadbury in
her new history.--Daisy Goodwin, TheSunday Times
Deborah Cadbury is an adroit story teller. Her lively colourfully
written book...begins in the 1880s and ends in the toppling thrones
of the First World War, a panoramic family saga, its players by
turns pragmatic and romantic, wilful, dutiful, misguided and,
occasionally tragic--Matthew Dennison, TheDaily Telegraph
Engrossing...Cadbury engagingly presents [Queen Victoria] as a
mesmerising Mrs Bennet, summoning her children and then her
grandchildren to Balmoral. ..The stories of [Queen Victoria's]
descendants are mesmerising and often stranger than fiction...From
the pen of a writer of skill and style, this surprising narrative
leaves you wanting more.--Paula Byrne, TheTimes
In this enjoyable story for fans of royal machinations, Cadbury
ably shows not just the successes, but also the damage inflicted by
Victoria's single-mindedness. An instructive European history that
effectively shows 'the influence of [Victoria's] matchmaking on the
remarkable rise of the royal dynasty'.--Kirkus Reviews
Wonderfully compelling and packed with new material - a gripping
story beautifully told.--Jane Ridley
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