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"Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, was one of Queen Victoria's favourite Prime Ministers. Yet in their earlier days she had disliked him, considering himn to be reckless and not respectable. After the Queen's husband Prince Albert died in 1861 Disraeli sensed her loneliness, and by a combination of sympathy, flattery and support, he became one of her closest confidantes. When he became Prime Minister for a few months in 1868, and later between 1874 and 1880, they forged an extraordinarily close partnership. Disraeli called her his ‘Faery Queen'. She had never been treated with such flattery or gracious homage, and she was completely won over.
With his love of and respect for the British Empire, Disraeli proved a very successful Prime Minister, buying shares in the Suez Canal and preventing the strategic waterway from falling into French hands, creating for Queen Victoria the title Empress of India, and achieving ‘Peace with Honour' fo Britain at the Congress of Berlin after the Russo-Turkish War. When the ailing Disraeli was defeated in the election of 1880 and died peacefully a year later, the Queen was inconsolable.
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John Van der Kiste, Resident Scholar
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Plot
job/profession:
- politician
Job/profession/poverty story
Yes
Politician story?
- Politician trying to reform
Period of greatest activity?
- 1800's
Subject of Biography
Gender
- Female
Profession/status:
- Prince/Nobleman/King
Biography of famous person?
Yes
Ethnicity
- White
Nationality
- British
How sensitive is this person?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other people
Physique
- average physique
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 2 ()
Europe
Yes
European country:
- England/UK
Misc setting
- Fancy Mansion
Century:
- 19th century
Style
Person
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
Book makes you feel?
- thoughtful
Writer's slant towards subject:
- neutral
Story of entire life, or part?
- story of set of events during life
Pictures/Illustrations?
- A lot 11-15 B&W
How much dialogue in bio?
- little dialog
How much of bio focuses on most famous period of life?
- 26-50% of book
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