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Queen Victoria (Paperback)
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Queen Victoria (Paperback)
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List price R472
Loot Price R284
Discovery Miles 2 840
You Save R188 (40%)
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'The truth was stranger than any of the fictions that have since
been offered to explain her away' Drawing upon Queen Victoria's
previously unpublished journals, Elizabeth Longford's classic
biography recalls the contrasts and curiosities of an earlier era
with exquisite detail - and transforms the queen from a severe,
time-worn effigy into a human being who loved, feared and fumed.
Longford probes the contradictions of a woman who wore a bonnet
instead of a crown at her Golden Jubilee and yet was recognised
always as both dignified and formidable. She chronicles both the
Queen's public life and her emotional travails, including
surprisingly stormy passages in her and Prince Albert's otherwise
loving marriage. A refreshingly human image of the Queen emerges:
voluble, passionate, politic and articulate, with an irresistible
mixture of grandeur and simplicity. 'Dazzlingly readable, and very
enjoyable' Stella Gibbons 'Queen Victoria has in Lady Longford her
fullest and best-informed, most sensible and sympathetic
biographer' The Times 'Gives us more than the general reader has
ever had, revealing the Queen as a character at once simple and
complex, authoritarian and humble' Daily Telegraph
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