![]() The young queen is shown tormented by an unhappy childhood, enraptured by a love match (on both sides), and tantalised by an all too brief period of happy marriage. ![]() The author's grasp of the era's politics, and her understanding of the problems which confront a woman who is not only a queen but also a mother of a large high-spirited family, make this book unique to this day. ![]() Elizabeth Longford's classic biography won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize when it was first published in 1964. Queen Victoria, a woman of diminutive stature and superabundant temperament, gave her name to something more than an age. ![]()
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