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HISTORY SAUL DAVID ON THE MAN WHO DISCIPLINED QUEEN VICTORIA'S FAVOURITE SON
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The Queen's Knight:
The Extraordinary Life of Queen
Victoria's Most Trusted Confidant
BY MARTYN DOWNER
BANTAM PRESS, pounds 25, 452 pp
T pounds 23 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115
The inside story of the late-Victorian court has been told before,
most recently in William Kuhn's life of Henry Ponsonby, the queen's
private secretary from 1870-95. But this new biography of the
colourful but relatively unknown Sir Howard Elphinstone, military
governor to the queen's favourite son Arthur,
has several key advantages: it spans a broader period (including,
crucially, the last few years of Prince ...
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