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...effect is sometimes a calumny, as when a Rolf Hochhuth claimed in Soldiers that Churchill engineered the murder of the head of the Polish government in exile. More often, it is stultifyingly frivolous and sentimental. The afterimage of a Victoria Regina or an Abe Lincoln in Illinois consists mostly of the unsettling idea that Queen Victoria was really Helen Hayes and the Great Emancipator was really Ray mond Massey. If anyone manages to remember The Last of Mrs. Lincoln, it will be with the conviction that Mary Todd Lincoln was really Julie Harris...
...QUEEN VICTORIA by CECIL WOODHAM-SMITH 486 pages. Knopf...
...Victoria: even today the name conjures up a glacial and portly figure swathed in black mourning, the aged face set in its pale exophthalmic stare of hauteur as she proceeds (for monarchs do not walk) across some shaven lawn at Balmoral. She is a living monument, testy, imperious, not amused. When the old die we remember them as old, and so it has been with Queen Victoria...
...afford to do without Europe. The nation that up to now has contributed mainly maids and labor and a place in the sun to the rest of the Continent desperately needs "the political education or background to know how to get what we want," as University of Barcelona Student Victoria Gaya puts...
Felix made the grand tour. Starting out in 1829, he traveled for three years. His greatest successes came in London, for the English liked his music as well as his charm. Queen Victoria and her consort spent many a private evening with him, with Mendelssohn playing Albert's new pipe organ and the prince literally pulling out all the stops...