Leopold I of Belgium secret pages of European history Egon Caesar Corti Books
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Leopold I of Belgium secret pages of European history Egon Caesar Corti Books
The only other one of Count Corti's books that I had read before this was his biography of Elizabeth of Austria, which was so good, it left me eager to read more.`Leopold of Belgium' cannot, however, quite be called a biography. Such a thing would have been difficult at the time, since as Corti points out in the introduction, "The present work itself does not purport to do more than make a contribution to such a biography; as any attempt to write the King's life without access to the carefully guarded, and only partially published, papers in the possession of the English Royal House is bound to succeed only incompletely".
Still, he did a pretty good job with whatever was available in 1923, even if the result is more a political study than a biography. Leopold's personal life is given only the bare minimum of attention. His first marriage, to Princess Charlotte of Wales, is glossed over in a page or two, and his second marriage is only given real analysis at the time of his second wife's death - and then again, only briefly. The death in infancy of his first son and the birth of a second son (the future Leopold II) are mentioned, but Leopold's daughter Charlotte emerges out of nowhere at the time of her marriage, and his second son, the Count of Flanders (father of Albert of Belgium) isn't mentioned at all.
Nonetheless, if you're interested in this fascinating combination of crude ambition and exquisitely subtle diplomatic skill, it's worth a read, even though this edition is full of typos, and footnotes in the middle of the text. The Publication Data at the front explained this: it was scanned, and not properly proofread (it mentions that this was done by software). But given that I couldn't find a single copy of the 1923 English edition on any internet book site, it's not worth complaining - at least it's available.
If you want a more recent study (though one that's still not a biography), I recommend Richard Sotnick's 2008 The Coburg Conspiracy: Royal Plots and Manoeuvres. Joanna Richardson's MY DEAREST UNCLE, A LIFE OF LEOPOLD, FIRST KING OF THE BELGIANS and Theo Aronson's Defiant Dynasty: The Coburgs of Belgium are also well worth reading.
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Leopold I of Belgium secret pages of European history Egon Caesar Corti Books Reviews
The only other one of Count Corti's books that I had read before this was his biography of Elizabeth of Austria, which was so good, it left me eager to read more.
`Leopold of Belgium' cannot, however, quite be called a biography. Such a thing would have been difficult at the time, since as Corti points out in the introduction, "The present work itself does not purport to do more than make a contribution to such a biography; as any attempt to write the King's life without access to the carefully guarded, and only partially published, papers in the possession of the English Royal House is bound to succeed only incompletely".
Still, he did a pretty good job with whatever was available in 1923, even if the result is more a political study than a biography. Leopold's personal life is given only the bare minimum of attention. His first marriage, to Princess Charlotte of Wales, is glossed over in a page or two, and his second marriage is only given real analysis at the time of his second wife's death - and then again, only briefly. The death in infancy of his first son and the birth of a second son (the future Leopold II) are mentioned, but Leopold's daughter Charlotte emerges out of nowhere at the time of her marriage, and his second son, the Count of Flanders (father of Albert of Belgium) isn't mentioned at all.
Nonetheless, if you're interested in this fascinating combination of crude ambition and exquisitely subtle diplomatic skill, it's worth a read, even though this edition is full of typos, and footnotes in the middle of the text. The Publication Data at the front explained this it was scanned, and not properly proofread (it mentions that this was done by software). But given that I couldn't find a single copy of the 1923 English edition on any internet book site, it's not worth complaining - at least it's available.
If you want a more recent study (though one that's still not a biography), I recommend Richard Sotnick's 2008 The Coburg Conspiracy Royal Plots and Manoeuvres. Joanna Richardson's MY DEAREST UNCLE, A LIFE OF LEOPOLD, FIRST KING OF THE BELGIANS and Theo Aronson's Defiant Dynasty The Coburgs of Belgium are also well worth reading.
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