num_pages: 384
description: This revealing selection from the Queen's papers provides essential clues to her character, tracing her development from shy princess to the formidable and uncompromising grande dame of Europe. How did she feel on hearing that she had become queen? How close was she to her eldest grandchild, who became Kaiser Wilhelm II? Why was she so reluctant to yield the crown to her son and heir, the future King Edward VII? What did she really think of Gladstone and Disraeli? These questions and many more are answered clearly and candidly in the Queen's own words. Victoria's passionate adoration of Prince Albert is evident throughout her journals, and later extracts give a touching insight into her feelings of loneliness and susceptibility after his death. Illustrated with some of the Queen's own drawings, this book presents an absorbing account of one of the most remarkable personalities of the nineteenth century.
language: English
title: Queen Victoria in Her Letters and Journals
titlecomplete: Queen Victoria in Her Letters and Journals
characters: Queen Victoria
genres: Historical, History, Biography, 19th Century, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 119
publisher: Sutton Publishing