The Coburg Connection
Richard Shannon, 5 April 1984
Albert, Prince Consort
by Robert Rhodes James.
Hamish Hamilton, 311 pp., £15, November 1983,0 241 11000 9 Show More
by Robert Rhodes James.
Hamish Hamilton, 311 pp., £15, November 1983,
“... was a schoolboy under Sir Roger Fulford. He puts one in mind of those Sloane Rangers who, so it is said, keep to their A-level texts at university to avoid intellectual fatigue. Yet, as against this, his is the first biography of the Prince to make what might be called both significant and candid use of the materials in the Royal Archives. He shows that a ... ”