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Victoria the matchmaker

Deborah Cadbury shows how Queen Victoria sought to influence the future of Europe through the marriages of her descendants

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Author and TV producer Deborah Cadbury discusses her new book Queen Victoria’s Matchmaking, which reveals how the 19th-century British monarch sought to influence the future of Europe through the marriages of her descendants

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