Princess Victoria Melita

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Summary: Enjoyable, informative biography
Review: Queen Victoria had some very interesting relatives! This is the biography of one of her granddaughters, the second daughter of Victoria's son, Alfred Duke of Edinburgh-Coburg, and sister to Queen Marie of Roumania. It's very well written, and what a life she had. Very tragic life, really; Victoria Melita married twice (both marriages ended badly, tho' she stayed married to her second husband until her death), she lost her little daughter by the Grand Duke of Hesse (another grandson of Victoria's) and the Russian Revolution swept away everything else...I enjoyed this biography very much. I thought Van der Kiste's writing was stronger here, than in "Once a Grand Duchess".