Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    John Brown: Queen Victoria's Highland Servant
    Unavailable
    John Brown: Queen Victoria's Highland Servant
    Unavailable
    John Brown: Queen Victoria's Highland Servant
    Ebook284 pages4 hours

    John Brown: Queen Victoria's Highland Servant

    By Raymond Lamont-Brown

    3/5

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this ebook

    A century after Queen Victoria's death, debate still rages surrounding her relationship with her gillie, John Brown. Were they ever married? What was the extraordinary hold he had over her? This biography aims to shed new light on these questions and to discover the truth behind Brown's hold on his royal employer. Following the death of Prince Albert in 1861, the Queen found solace in the companionship of John Brown, who had commenced his royal employment as a stable hand. He became "The Queen's Highland Servant" in 1865 and rose to be the most influential member of the Scottish Royal Household. While the Queen could be brusque and petulant with her servants, family and ministers, she submitted to Brown's fussy organization of her domestic life, his bullying and familiarity without a murmur. Despite warnings of his unpopularity with her subjects by one Prime Minister, the Queen was adamant that Brown would not be sacked. The Queen's confidence was rewarded when Brown saved her from an assassination attempt, after which he was vaunted as a public hero. The author reveals the names of republicans and disaffected courtiers who related gossip about Queen Victoria and John Brown and their purported marriage and child, and identifies those who plotted to have Brown dismissed. Based on research in public, private and royal archives, as well as diaries and memoirs of those who knew Brown and interviews with his surviving relatives, this text analyzes the relationship between Queen Victoria and Brown.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe History Press
    Release dateAug 26, 2011
    ISBN9780752468990
    Unavailable
    John Brown: Queen Victoria's Highland Servant
    Author

    Raymond Lamont-Brown

    Raymond Lamont-Brown is a well-known author and lecturer, with a wide range of interests. During the 1960s he studied at the School of Oriental and African Studies at London University and lived for some time in Japan. Later he lectured at the universities of St Andrews and Dundee and is a regular contributor on BBC Radio Scotland. As well as writing a great deal of local history, Raymond Lamont-Brown has written books on Robert Burns, Mary, Queen of Scots, as well as several books of military history. He lives in Broughty Ferry.

    Read more from Raymond Lamont Brown

    Related to John Brown

    Related ebooks

    History For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Renaissance Beauty Tips

      Aug 31, 2023

      Renaissance Beauty Tips
      1 min read

    • Article

      Holding Out For Your HEROES

      Sep 9, 2022

      Holding Out For Your HEROES
      5 min read

    • Article

      Death Of A Queen

      Sep 9, 2021

      Death Of A Queen
      1 min read

    • Article

      Battle Of Tewkesbury

      Mar 21, 2024

      Battle Of Tewkesbury
      10 min read

    • Article

      “Beware The Moon, Lads!”

      Dec 27, 2019

      “Beware The Moon, Lads!”
      7 min read

    • Article

      How George V Won The War

      Sep 2, 2021

      How George V Won The War
      8 min read

    • Article

      He Could Have Been Saved

      Jun 24, 2021

      He Could Have Been Saved
      3 min read

    • Article

      Love And War

      Sep 14, 2023

      Love And War
      2 min read

    • Article

      Henry And His Wives In Numbers

      Oct 29, 2020

      Henry And His Wives In Numbers
      1 min read

    • Article

      Flying The Royal Nest

      Apr 15, 2021

      Flying The Royal Nest
      5 min read

    • Article

      Queens Of Bling

      Oct 27, 2022

      Queens Of Bling
      6 min read

    • Article

      Spotlight On…

      Dec 28, 2022

      The Hungarian countess Elizabeth Báthory is said to have murdered hundreds of girls and bathed in their blood to keep herself beautiful. But is there any truth in the gory story or is it just a malicious lie? In the first decade of the 17th century,

      3 min read

    • Article

      Portrait Of An Artist

      Jan 6, 2022

      Portrait Of An Artist
      6 min read

    • Article

      Make It So

      Mar 22, 2023

      Make It So
      7 min read

    • Article

      A Very British Scandal

      Jan 13, 2022

      A Very British Scandal
      2 min read

    • Article

      Little Casper BIG DREAMS

      Jun 9, 2021

      Daisy Broadway, 27, Melbourne, Vic Squeezing my partner Justin’s hand, I felt a rush of excitement. It was our 12-week scan, and everything was going well. But then I saw the sonographer’s face fall. ‘What’s wrong?’ I asked. ‘You need to speak to y

      3 min read

    • Article

      The Empire Abroad

      Feb 23, 2023

      The Empire Abroad
      3 min read

    • Article

      Enemies Of The State

      Dec 28, 2021

      Enemies Of The State
      12 min read

    • Article

      Speedboat

      Mar 24, 2022

      Nobody died that year. Nobody prospered. There were no births or marriages. Seventeen reverent satires were written – disrupting a cliché and, presumably, creating a genre. That was a dream, of course, but many of the most important things, I fi nd,

      14 min read

    Reviews for John Brown

    3/5

    2 ratings1 review

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 3/5
      This book, about Queen Victoria's beloved John Brown, didn't produce anything I didn't already know about the Queen and her Highland servant. The narrative at times got a little boring, though, the book does give a good portrait of Brown to someone unfamiliar with the story.