Clare McHugh - A Very English Princess
Hosted by Gill Butler and organised by the Friends of Blackheath Halls, author Clare McHugh presents her new novel of the life of Princess Victoria, the eldest child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. She became Empress of Germany and mother of Kaiser Wilhelm II. A person of great intelligence, she fell in love at 15, lived through three wars, gave birth to eight children, but never lost heart in her fight for a better, fairer, more liberal-minded world. In the struggle for the soul of the German nation, Vicky’s antagonist was Otto von Bismarck, and eventually her own son.