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| Title | Memoirs of royal ladies, Volume 2 Memoirs of royal ladies, Emily Sarah Holt |
| Author | Emily Sarah Holt |
| Publisher | Hurst and Blackett, 1861 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | Jun 26, 2006 |
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