Showing Connaught: A Royal Family Album by Robert Golden

Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught was the third and favourite son of Queen Victoria. Born in 1850, he lived for almost 92 years, thus being "Witness of a Century" as one of his biographers chose to call him. Throughout his life he was a military man and from time to time would represent his mother, and later his brother and nephew, overseas in countries such as India and Canada. His wife, Louise Margaret of Prussia, was a serious-looking woman who ruled her children firmly. The eldest daughter, Princess Margaret, known as Daisy, became a beloved Crown Princess of Sweden and the grandmother of one King and two Queens: Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, Margrethe II of Denmark and Anne-Marie of Greece. Their son, Prince Arthur of Connaught, was a hard-working and amiable if somewhat shy character who did not live long enough to become Duke. His wife, Princess Alexandra, Duchess of Fife, had a career as a nurse besides being a member of the Royal Family. The younger daughter, Princess Patricia (Patsy) was the Diana of her time and much loved by the public. After her marriage in 1919 to a commoner, Alexander Ramsay, she retired from royal life but would occasionally appear in her old role as Princess at family celebrations, coronations and jubilees. It is her daughter-in-law, The Lady Saltoun, who has generously allowed access to the Connaught family albums. Robert Golden has previously published three albums with pictures and accompanying stories pertaining to Queen Victoria's extended family; Relatively Royal, The Golden Book of Royalty and Definitely Royal. In this fourth volume, with more than 300 illustrations, he focuses on one of the branches, the Connaughts. Added to the album is a detailed illustrated genealogy of the ancestors and descendants of the Connaughts, compiled by Royal genealogist and publisher Ted Rosvall.