What was the secret of Queen Victoria’s rebel daughter?

Lucinda Hawskley thinks she knows. But her The Mystery of Princess Louise presents no hard evidence

From magazine issue: 11 January 2014

Coloured photograph of Princess Louise dating from the early 1880s by the society photographer Alexander Bassano [Copyright: www.bridgemanart.com]

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