We Two Quotes

“education could certainly “mould and direct” but could not “alter a child’s character.”
― Gillian Gill, We Two: Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals

“Kent were both standing in the”
― Gillian Gill, We Two: Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals

“The long, faithful, loving partnership of Victoria and Albert has come to be a dusty old fact enshrined in the history books, but as a lived reality, it was an extraordinary feat achieved against the odds.”
― Gillian Gill, We Two: Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals

“She was short, she was plain, and she showed signs of wanting her own way. Disappointed”
― Gillian Gill, We Two: Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals

“In 1840, the year that Victoria and Albert were married, no woman in the kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland could vote, be elected to parliament or any other public office, attend the university, or enter a profession. If a woman married, her property, her earnings, her children, and her body legally belonged to her husband, to do with as he willed. The world of business was more hostile to women in 1840 than it had been in 1740 or 1640, and though many women were forced to work, a bare handful could make a living wage.”
― Gillian Gill, We Two: Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals

“But Albert’s overriding international mission was the reunification of Germany under Prussia, so he did not come to the defense of little Denmark when Prussia made moves to swallow up the Danish duchies of Schleswig and Holstein.”
― Gillian Gill, We Two: Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals

“Palmerston, like Winston Churchill in the mid-twentieth century, seemed the incarnation of John Bull, the English equivalent to Uncle Sam.”
― Gillian Gill, We Two: Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals

“But on certain key issues, like Germany, he saw things clearly, as the prince did not.”
― Gillian Gill, We Two: Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals

“In view of the consistently violent aggression of the German Empire between 1860 and 1918, Palmerston’s prescience is remarkable.”
― Gillian Gill, We Two: Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals

“The Kingdom of Prussia was aiming to be the kernel around which the new Germany would form, and Prussia was openly hostile to Britain and its constitutional form of government. Prussia was a repressive, militaristic society ruled by a medievally minded king and a tiny, ultraconservative camarilla. The Prussians saw Russia as their governmental ideal and chief ally. Palmerston did not like the Prussians.”
― Gillian Gill, We Two: Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals

“But Palmerston feared that a new, unified Germany at the heart of Europe would alter the balance of power and threaten English interests as a free Hungary or a republican Spain could not.”
― Gillian Gill, We Two: Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals