![]() ![]() It’s a far cry from the dour black-clad matron of later years as the writer illustrates so often with good humor, this Victoria was definitely amused. Once free of the drama and dysfunction that hindered her, the young queen blossoms to meet those expectations – devoted, charming, exuberant to take on the challenges that face her. ![]() Beginning with the crisis that led to her conception, it chronicles her rise from the rubble of a crumbling royal family, growing up constrained by an overbearing mother and increasingly burdened by the knowledge that the expectations of an empire rest on her success. A short book written in a casual narrative style, this is an entertaining as well as informative record of Queen Victoria’s life from her birth to her marriage. ![]() This reprint of the 1981 classic is sure to please readers old and new. ![]()
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