- Published: 21 November 2013
- ISBN: 9781448192113
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 416
The Mystery of Princess Louise
Queen Victoria's Rebellious Daughter
- Published: 21 November 2013
- ISBN: 9781448192113
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 416
The fullest biography yet of a princess who was friends with Josephine Butler, a feminist and advocate for the health of sex workers, well deserves its place on the shelf
Lucy Worsley, Sunday Express
I've always wanted to know more about Princess Louise... Biographies of Kate Perugini and Elizabeth Siddal – who moved in similar artistic circles – drew Hawksley to her. Court secrecy meant that resourcefulness was needed to write it
Ruth Richardson, Times Higher Education
Lively, engaging and buoyantly enthusiastic, Hawksley's gallant but necessarily speculative book should encourage the royal archivists to stop being so protective
Miranda Seymour, Sunday Times
Hawksley's entertaining and lengthy book gives a vivid insight into Victorian royal life and the repressions and sexual hypocrisies of those days
Anthony Looch, UK Press Syndication
Satisfyingly replete with eye-popping stories of life at the various palaces
Rachel Cooke, Observer
Hawksley’s book is a Victorian Squidgygate and offers the same kind of guilty pleasures
John Sutherland, The Times
Full of glorious insight... This pacey exploration into "the real" Princess Louise will keep you hooked until the end
Family Tree Magazine
Spirited and lively, The Mystery of Princess Louise is richly packed with arguments, intrigues, scandals and secrets, and is a vivid portrait of a princess desperate to escape her inheritance
Majesty
Gripping... An utterly absorbing read
Elizabeth Fitzherbert, Lady
Richly packed with arguments, intrigues, scandals and secrets.
Majesty
Richly packed with arguments, intrigues, scandals and secrets
Majesty
Hawksley’s biography of Victoria’s most artistic daughter is full of gaps that she attempts to fill, with delicious success
Lesley McDowell, 4 stars, Independent on Sunday
[A] well-researched portrait of an intriguing royal character
Julia Richardson, Daily Mail
A tantalising and well-told tale
Marcus Field, Independent