Product Description

This book, which will accompany an exhibition at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh in March 2005, explores Queen Victoria's and her husband Prince Albert's love affair with Scotland. Their early journeys to Scotland, including visits to Dalkeith Palace, Taymouth Castle and Dumbarton will be examined, as well as their stays at Balmoral, to which they formed a deep attachment. The author, Jeanne Cannizzo, illuminates the private side of the royal couple's life away from their public life in London. Our Highland Home: Victoria and Albert in Scotland includes images from the collections of the National Galleries of Scotland, the Royal Collection Trust, and many public and private collections throughout the United Kingdom.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1223686 in Books
• Published on: 2005-03-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 56 pages

Customer Reviews

A coffee table book , lavishly illustrated.
This book is lavishly illustrated and printed on high quality paper. But I wish I had noted that it is only 56 pages long. In fact it's a "coffee table" book and I was quite disappointed, I must admit. It's really a book of very well printed Victorian paintings, and the text which accompanies the illustrations is sparse, to say the least. Put it this way- the front and back covers are made of thick cardboard. The combined thickness of the covers is greater than the thickness of the pages in between!. It's really just the kind of book you'd idly flick through, in a dentist's waiting room.