Victoria and Albert - A Royal Love Affair Quotes

“Albert also challenged tradition by attending the births of his children.”
― Daisy Goodwin, Victoria & Albert: A Royal Love Affair

“It’s perplexing that Victoria’s reign is commonly thought of as prudish when the Queen herself took such pleasure in sex.”
― Daisy Goodwin, Victoria & Albert: A Royal Love Affair

“Until the Married Women’s Property Act of 1870, everything a married woman earned legally belonged to her husband. It wasn’t until the Act of 1882 that she could retain her own property once she was married.”
― Daisy Goodwin, Victoria & Albert: A Royal Love Affair

“Charles Dickens collaborated with the heiress and philanthropist Angela Burdett-Coutts to set up a ‘Magdalen House’ to train prostitutes in other trades to prepare them for a new life in Australia.”
― Daisy Goodwin, Victoria & Albert: A Royal Love Affair