Research Catalog

Title

John Brown : Queen Victoria's Highland servant / Raymond Lamont-Brown.

Author

Lamont-Brown, Raymond, 1939-

Publication

Stroud : Sutton, 2000.

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Details

Description

xviii, 198 pages : illustrations, 1 map; 25 cm

Summary

A century after Queen Victoria's death, debate still rages over her relationship with her gillie, John Brown. Were they ever married? What was the extraordinary hold he had over her? This biography aims to shed new light on these questions.

Subject

• Brown, John, 1826-1883
• Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901 > Friends and associates
• Brown, John, 1826-1883
• Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901
• 1800-1901
• Royal households > Great Britain > History > 19th century
• Hunting guides > Scotland > Biography
• Queens > Great Britain > Biography
• Guides de chasse > Écosse > Biographies
• Friendship
• Hunting guides
• Queens
• Royal households
• Vorstenhuizen
• Hofhouding
• Great Britain > History > Victoria, 1837-1901 > Biography
• Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 1837-1901 (Victoria) > Biographies
• Great Britain
• Scotland
• Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland

Genre/Form

• Biographies.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-190) and index.

Contents

Prologue: Birth of Royal Rumour -- Introduction: Queen Victoria's Scottish Inheritance -- Child of the Mountains -- Fascinating Johnny Brown -- To Serve Her All His Days -- All the Secrets of the Universe -- To Kill the Queen -- Sickle of the Reaper -- Trial by Gossip -- Epilogue: Scenes at a Royal Deathbed -- Holograph letter from Queen Victoria -- Queen Victoria's Children and Their Antipathy to John Brown -- Genealogical Chart of John Brown, His Parents and Siblings.

ISBN

• 0750922524
• 9780750922524

LCCN

00456818

OCLC

• ocm47168346
• 47168346
• SCSB-14110925

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library