25 APRIL 1987, page 29

Obsessed With Male Beauty

Gabriele Annan VICTORIA: BIOGRAPHY OF A QUEEN by Stanley Weintraub Unwin Hyman, £17.50 I n 1830, when Princess Victoria was 11, her governess, Baroness Lehzen, slipped a......

A Fat And Disdainful Empress

Philip Marsden-Smedley EMPRESS TAYTU AND MENELIK II: ETHIOPIA 1883-1910 by Chris Prouty Raven's Educational and Development Services, £9.95 E mperor Menelik II, elect of God,......