Royal Romances of Today: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Royal Romances of Today, credited to Kellogg Durland, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Royal Romances of Today by Kellogg Durland. Read in English by Lynette Caulkins; KevinS; Diana Majlinger "In the year 1907, the Woman’s Home Companion commissioned me to go to Russia to write the story of the early days, courtship and marriage of her whom the world knows to-day as the 'Tsaritsa,' The following year, the same periodical sent me to Italy to write a similar account of the life of Queen Elena; and in 1910 I was once more sent abroad, this time to Spain, to learn all about Queen Victoria Eugenie....'Your task is difficult,'remarked a friend to whom I had just explained that I was writing the lives of the Empress of Russia, the Queen of Spain, and the Queen of Italy. 'Your task is difficult, because these are three good Queens, and good Queens, like all good women, have no history.' Now that I have told the stories of these three good Queens, I wonder if my friend will not grant that they have been worth the telling?" (from the Foreword)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Royal Romances of Today
• Author credits: Kellogg Durland
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 31
• Listed recording duration: 6:47:43

Catalogue topics

• history
• relationships
• romance
• Spain
• Italy
• Russia
• Royalty
• royal

Opening tracks: first 24 of 31

1. 00 - Foreword — 3:53
2. 01 - Part I - Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain, Ch. I - An Island Princess — 6:27
3. 02 - Part I, Ch. II - Girlhood — 11:42
4. 03 - Part I, Ch. III - Courtship — 13:06
5. 04 - Part I, Ch. IV - A Royal Wedding — 18:30
6. 05 - Part I, Ch. V - A Baptism of Blood — 5:33
7. 06 - Part I, Ch. VI - Winning a Nation's Love — 13:53
8. 07 - Part I, Ch. VII - Don Alfonso XIII — 6:31
9. 08 - Part I, Ch. VIII - A King's Life — 19:50
10. 09 - Part I, Ch. IX - Courage and Kingship — 12:17
11. 10 - Part I, Ch. X - The Prince of Asturias — 17:36
12. 11 - Part I, Ch. XI - The Royal Nursery of Spain — 14:12
13. 12 - Part I, Ch. XII - The Princes at Play — 12:02
14. 13 - Part II - The Empress Alexandra of Russia, Ch. I - 'Sunny' — 10:18
15. 14 - Part II, Ch. II - Courtship and a Journey to the Northland — 14:55
16. 15 - Part II, Ch. III - Assuming the Burden — 16:09
17. 16 - Part II, Ch. IV - Motherhood and Queenship — 23:38
18. 17 - Part II, Ch. V - Spirit Whisperings — 31:09
19. 18 - Part II, Ch. VI - Family Life at the Russian Court — 24:33
20. 19 - Part II, Ch. VII - The Grand Duchess Olga — 11:16
21. 20 - Part II, Ch. VIII - Tatiana, Marie and Anastasie — 15:27
22. 21 - Part II, Ch. IX - The Tsarevitch — 8:25
23. 22 - Part II, Ch. X - The End of the Road — 10:43
24. 23 - Part III - Queen Elena of Italy, Ch. I - A Mountain Princess — 15:05

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