Letters of a Diplomat's Wife, 1883-1900 Mary Alsop King Waddington 9781143848353 Books
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Mary King Waddingtion was the american wife to the special French envoy to the Coronation of Alexander 3rd of Russia in 1883 and lived for 10 years in England when her husband was assigned Ambassdor to the English court.
This book consists of the lively, and descriptive letters she sent back to her familiy during these periods. They are almost like diary entries, fresh and true descriptions of her experiences.
You get to see all the festivites and offical functions surrounding the Russian coronation - a trip back to Paris via Scandinavia - London high society, Scottish scenery and the Court of England. It's a facinating insight by someone who was "in" with these circles. The trip to the Russian Coronation is particulary well done and if you are searching for information on Imperial Russia this is a set of memoirs worth reading.
Illuminating letters that have withstood the test of time well.
Mary King Waddington was an American married to a French diplomat. This book is composed of her letters to various friends and family members (identified only by their initials). A large part of it is devoted to the 1883 coronation of Russian Tsar Alexander III. The rest is devoted to life at the court of Queen Victoria during the last years of her reign. Waddington was a fluent and chatty letter writer, and obviously very happy in society; she includes details of what all the assorted queens and princesses wore to balls, coronations, and audiences, etc., as well as excellent anecdotes. (She describes another American embassy wife's reaction to long waits in line "I heard a... voice saying in English 'I can't bear it another moment... I am kicking off my shoes.' 'But you can never put them on again.' 'I don't care if I never see them again-- I can't stand them another minute.' 'But you have to walk in a cortege to supper with the Imperial party.' 'I don't care at all, I shall walk in my stockings,' then came another little kick, and the slipper disappeared, rolling underneath a heavy damask curtain.")
So many books that describe this period are memoirs, written many years after the fact, often with the intent of presenting a certain view. Waddington wrote her letters just after and, in some cases, during the events she describes. There is a vividness to her writings that one rarely finds in memoirs. A fun read for those interested in the Russian and English courts during the end of the 19th century and start of the 20th.
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