By Jean Plaidy
During this unforgettable novel of Queen Victoria, Jean Plaidy re-creates a outstanding existence jam-packed with romance, triumph, and tragedy.
At beginning, Princess Victoria used to be fourth in line for the throne of britain, the often-overlooked daughter of a prince who died presently after her beginning. She and her mom lived in genteel poverty for many of her early life, exiled from court docket as a result of her mother’s dislike of her uncles, George IV and William IV. a powerful, willful baby, Victoria was resolute to not be stifled via her robust uncles or her unpopular, controlling mom. Then one morning, on the age of eighteen, Princess Victoria woke up to the inside track of her uncle William’s demise. The almost-forgotten princess was once now Queen of britain. Even larger, she was once eventually freed from her mother’s iron hand and her uncles’ manipulations. Her first act as queen was once to call for that she receive a room—and a bed—of her own.
Victoria’s marriage to her German cousin, Prince Albert, used to be a blissfully chuffed one who produced 9 little ones. Albert was once her consistent significant other and one in every of her such a lot depended on advisors. Victoria’s grief after Prince Albert’s premature dying used to be so shattering that for the remainder of her life—nearly 40 years—she dressed in simple terms in black. She survived a number of assassination makes an attempt, and through her reign England’s empire accelerated all over the world till it touched each continent within the world.
Derided as a trifling “girl queen” at her coronation, via the tip of her sixty-four-year reign, Victoria embodied the respect of the British Empire. during this novel, written as a “memoir” by means of Victoria herself, she emerges as honest, sentimental, and basically human—both a cute girl and an exceptional queen.
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