Monarch
Subtitle: The Life and Reign of Elizabeth II
Publisher: Free Press
Published: May 6, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9780743236690
Subjects: Biography: general; Biography: royalty; Women's studies; Women; Great Britain; Biography / Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography; Royalty; Biography/Autobiography; Queens; History; Europe - Great Britain - General; Biography & Autobiography / Royalty; 20th century; Biography; Monarchy
First sentence: ON 29 MAY 1842, the young Queen Victoria was returning to Buckingham Palace after an afternoon's carriage ride with her husband Prince Albert when a shortish man stepped from the crowd and took aim with a pistol.