Queen Victoria
Book description
'The truth was stranger than any of the fictions that have since been offered to explain her away'
Drawing upon Queen Victoria's previously unpublished journals, Elizabeth Longford's classic biography recalls the contrasts and curiosities of an earlier era with exquisite detail - and transforms the queen from a severe, time-worn…
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This was the first Royal history book I ever read and it hooked me into the world of Queen Victoria and her descendants.
It is a classic, standard biography of Victoria - an excellent overview of her life as a woman in a man’s world, her marriage and her widowhood. Many biographies since have dissected various aspects of Victoria’s life without giving a good general telling of her story. But this is what Elizabeth Longford does - with a writing style that flows and is so so easy to read.
It is “warts and all” - Victoria was not the…
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