My memoires plus#

Near the end of the story, we learn that Victoria is an inmate in a prison-amusement park hybrid, where she is punished by actors and paying visitors for her role in documenting the murder of a child. For most of the episode, Victoria is physically and psychologically tormented, made to believe she is being hunted while bystanders document her murder. This episode documents the cruel and unusual punishment inflicted on the protagonist, an amnesiac named Victoria who awakens in a dystopian reality with no recollection of how she got there. The television show Black Mirror explores these quandaries in the season two crescendo, “ White Bear” (spoilers ahead). This book was hard to find (I ordered a rather expensive old penguin paperback online, that was shipped from England, and was in pretty bad condition), but it's worth reading if you like books about royalty.Is it right to punish someone for a crime they don’t remember committing? Is it wrong to punish someone for a crime they remember, but didn’t commit? How we answer these questions illuminates our intuitions about the relationship between memory and personal identity. She was also divorced by her husband right before World War I - at a time when that simply wasn't done (the rumor, which Princess ML most definitely does NOT relate, is that Aribert her husband was discovered by her in bed with a male groom).

My memoires plus#

I imagine the princess herself was both of those things - plus adventurous, as she traveled all over the world well into her elderly years. The stories she tells are quite gentle and amusing. She's not writing with a poison pen here no hatches are buried in this memoir. Princess M L pops up in books about the royals - especially King Edward and Queen Alexandra. She knew two queens and four kings intimately, and has stories about each. Princess Marie Louise was the grand daughter of Queen Victoria, and in 1956 - right before she died - she wrote and published her memoirs. that ends up stretching into the night.ĭefinitely worth it for any self respecting ) fan of England and English history.

You may not like the way this is written, it was published in 1956 and as she herself admits it, she's not a writer, however this is well worth your time and your patience.even all these years later, Princess Marie Louise is a treasure trove of information and, at least for me, reading this was the equivalent of a 5'o clock tea with my favorite great aunt.

Not all truths need to be told.īorn in the faraway year of 1872, daughter of Princess Helena and Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, granddaughter of THE Queen Victoria, Marie Louise was a privileged witness of some major historical moments until her death under the reign of Queen Elisabeth II, whose coronation she witnessed and of which she talks as well in these pages. even though not everything is in here since, as she herself says 'Toute verite n'est pas bonne a dire'.

I have loooooong wanted to get my hands on a copy but prices were a little over my range until a happy discovery very recently - thank you TB!Īnyways i ramble a Little off topic.apologies!ĭeliciously dated, perhaps somewhat mildly offensive to more sensitive modern ears, this is a fascinating collection of facts, people, gossips and jokes. Any 'serious' reader of Queen Victoria's life and (huge) family, will at any given point have heard of her granddaughter Princess Marie Louise and her Memoirs.