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The melancholy truth was that his glorious golden head had nothing in it.

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It was not a union which seemed likely to prosper, since its chief characteristics were imprudence, youth and extreme good looks.

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A totally unexpected development followed; the Queen and the Irish people fell in love with each other. The affection was brief, the participants unsuited, the episode soon forgotten and the course of history uninfluenced, but for a few days in August, 1849, the attraction was a reality.

Cecil Woodham-Smith

Cecil Woodham-Smith

Cecil Woodham-Smith

Born: April 29, 1896

Died: March 16, 1977 (aged 80)

Bio: Cecil Blanche Woodham-Smith was a British historian and biographer. She wrote four popular history books, each dealing with a different aspect of the Victorian era.

Known for:

Florence Nightingale, 1820-1910 (1950)
The Reason Why (1953)
The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845-1849 (1962)

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