![]() ![]() Perhaps Victoria thought she was over the hill, but Beatrice met Liko, Prince Henry of Battenberg, and fell in love. Although Victoria tried to prevent Beatrice even so much as thinking of love, her guard slipped when Beatrice was 29. But thank goodness Beatrice inherited some of her mother's more steely qualities. She edited and bowdlerised her mother's Journal that cover 70 years and where possible her voluminous correspondence. ![]() Beatrice succumbed to her mother's obsessive love, so that by the time she was in her late teens she was her constant companion and running her mother's office, which meant that when Victoria died her daughter became literary executor, a role she conducted with teutonic thoroughness. Victoria was not above laying it down regally even with her own children. It is an enthralling story, not just of a mother/daughter relationship, but of a Queen and subject relationship. ![]() Her father died when she was four and as Matthew Dennison relates Victoria came to depend on her youngest daughter absolutely, but she also demanded from her complete submission. Beatrice was the last child born to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. ![]()
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