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Queen Victoria - Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow (Paperback)
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Queen Victoria - Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 3 590
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'Such a brilliant idea! Drilling down into Victoria's diaries
Worsley gives us Victoria in all her infinite variety - queen and
mother, matriarch and minx...I loved it.' Daisy Goodwin, author,
and creator of ITV's Victoria 'The glory of this book is in the
details, and the specific moments, that Worsley chooses to single
out for mention, and in her cheerful voice as she leads us by the
hand to the next window of Victoria's life calendar.' The Times Who
was Queen Victoria? A little old lady, potato-like in appearance,
dressed in everlasting black? Or a passionate young princess, a
romantic heroine with a love of dancing? There is also a third
Victoria - a woman who was also a remarkably successful queen, one
who invented a new role for the monarchy. She found a way of being
a respected sovereign in an age when people were deeply
uncomfortable with having a woman on the throne. As well as a
queen, Victoria was a daughter, a wife, a mother and a widow, and
at each of these steps along life's journey she was expected to
conform to what society demanded of a woman. On the face of it, she
was deeply conservative. But if you look at her actions rather than
her words, she was in fact tearing up the rule book for how to be
female. By looking at the detail of twenty-four days of her life,
through diaries, letters and more, we can see Victoria up close and
personal. Examining her face-to-face, as she lived hour to hour,
allows us to see, and to celebrate, the contradictions at the heart
of British history's most recognisable woman.
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