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title: "Alfred: Queen Victoria's Second Son"
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# Alfred: Queen Victoria's Second Son

**Brand:** john van der kiste
**Price:** € 50.74
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- **What is this?** Alfred: Queen Victoria's Second Son by john van der kiste
- **How much does it cost?** € 50.74 with free shipping
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## Customer Reviews

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    Interesting Second Son
  

*by L***Z on Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2022*

We rarely hear about the second son of Queen Victoria. He was in love with E gland and the navy, but assigned as a toddler to sacrifice it all for his father's family.

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    HRH PRINCE ALFRED, DUKE OF EDINBURGH
  

*by K***H on Reviewed in the United States on June 19, 2022*

So excited to have found a book that had more then a chapter on Prince Alfred. For years I didn't think I would find a credible book. John Van der Kristen wrote a thoughtful and thorough book and I found the reading easy and informative. This is not just a history but an enjoyable book of family, friendship and sorrow. I give it 5 stars.

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    Worth the Read
  

*by A***H on Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2014*

Alfred: Queen Victoria's Second Son is a useful addition to the vast canon of books on Victoria and her extended family. References to Alfred are usually limited to a very predictable number of stories of his childhood relationship to Bertie, his brother, and their experiences aboard ship in the Royal Navy when they were very young. After that, he becomes barely a dot on the radar screen. I was fascinated to read about his enormous popularity throughout the Empire, the number of royal engagements he took on, and his complex personality. He could be beneficent and engaging. He could be a drunken bully. But the book has its share of problems. The author seems unable to make up his mind about Alfred. Again and again he will change his mind in mid-sentence about Alfred's performance as a royal person or about this basic goodness as a human being. There is disappointingly little about his wife, Marie, and her prickly relationship to the English royals. She arrived in England as a Russian Imperial Highness and spent a lifetime resenting being demoted to an HRH. The book ends so abruptly that one wonders if van der Kiste lost interest or just ran out of things to say. I didn't spot any factual errors, however the proofreading must have been done only by a computer's spell checker. An astonishing number of typos litter the page - but they are all "real" words, although the wrong words. Surely a human being should have been assigned the responsibility to go through with a red pencil. "Alfred: Queen Victoria's Second Son" is an excellent complement to having a complete collection on the topic.

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*Last updated: 2026-03-04*