On the surface, when picking up a copy of Albert and Victoria by Edgar Feuchtwanger, it seems as if the work would fit in with the bevy of other biographical monographs on the Queen and her Consort. However, alongside these biographical remarks, one finds a much different approach to addressing the couple through the author’s focus on Prince Albert’s life and especially, his acting as shadow-king; in fact, Albert appears to be the master mind behind everything, even the austere Victorian mannerisms, with Victoria appearing a carefree and loving wife. Along with Albert’s influence on Victoria and Britain, Feuchtwanger also focuses on the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha connection that links together European powerhouses, rebellions, and ends with their grandson Duke Charles Edward of Coburg’s support for the Führer and Nazism. The author’s personal background sets up his interesting bias towards German supremacy and involvement in the Victorian government. Edgar hails from German-British ancestry, having escaped the Holocaust at a fourteen, and that shows in many of the works he wrote. He mostly focuses on topics that can relate to Germany, with…show more content… Feuchtwanger makes note of Victoria’s ardent writing, citing it to about 2,500 words a day, with much of them edited by her child Edward VIII and Princess Beatrice. However, throughout the monograph, these letters reveal not only the focus of Albert and Victoria on simply Britain and Germany, but also, their larger use of foreign diplomacy and visits. This establishes how an Empire like this could work well in comparison to the rest of Europe, who continued to face revolutions and conflict. However, this fine interaction spells out politically how the world, in his conclusion, erupted into World War I and II. Other than these letters, Feuchtwanger uses many biographies both contemporary and modern, as well as English and German to study the couple’s life through
