Victoria Victorious: The Story of Queen Victoria-Fast Shipping

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In this unforgettable novel of Queen Victoria, Jean Plaidy re-creates a remarkablelife filled with romance, triumph, and tragedy.

At birth, Princess Victoria wasfourth in line for the throne of England, the often-overlooked daughter of a princewho died shortly after her birth. She and her mother lived in genteel poverty formost of her childhood, exiled from court because of her mother’s dislike of her uncles,George IV and William IV. A strong, willful child, Victoria was determined not tobe stifled by her powerful uncles or her unpopular, controlling mother. Then onemorning, at the age of eighteen, Princess Victoria awoke to the news of her uncleWilliam’s death. The almost-forgotten princess was now Queen of England. Even better,she was finally free of her mother’s iron hand and her uncles’ manipulations. Herfirst act as queen was to demand that she be given a room—and a bed—of her own.

Victoria’s marriage to her German cousin, Prince Albert, was a blissfully happy onethat produced nine children. Albert was her constant companion and one of her mosttrusted advisors. Victoria’s grief after Prince Albert’s untimely death was so shatteringthat for the rest of her life—nearly forty years—she dressed only in black. She survivedseveral assassination attempts, and during her reign England’s empire expanded aroundthe globe until it touched every continent in the world.

Derided as a mere “girlqueen” at her coronation, by the end of her sixty-four-year reign, Victoria embodiedthe glory of the British Empire. In this novel, written as a “memoir” by Victoriaherself, she emerges as truthful, sentimental, and essentially human—both a lovablewoman and a great queen.