The Reign of Queen Victoria
Author | : Hector Bolitho |
Publisher | : Collins |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 1948 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Hector Bolitho |
Publisher | : Collins |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 1948 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Julia Woodlands Baird |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 770 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1400069882 |
The race to the crown -- The birth of "pocket Hercules"--The lonely, naughty princess -- An impossible, strange madness -- "Awful scenes in the house"--Becoming queen: "I shall not fail" -- The coronation: "a dream out of the Arabian nights" -- Learning to rule -- A scandal in the palace -- Virago in love -- The bride: "I never, never spent such an evening" -- Only the husband, not the master -- The palace intruders -- King to all intents: "like a vulture into his prey" -- Perfect, awful, spotless prosperity -- Annus Mirabilis: the revolutionary year -- What Albert did: the Great Exhibition of 1851 -- The Crimea: 'This unsatisfactory war' -- London boils over -- Royal parents: "everything passes so quickly!" -- "Who will call me Victoria now?" -- "The whole house seems like Pompeii." -- Resuscitating the widow at Windsor -- The queen's stallion -- The faery queen awakes -- Enough to kill any man -- Two ironclads colliding: the queen and Mr. Gladstone -- The monarch in a bonnet -- The "poor munshi" -- The diamond empire -- The end of the Victorian Age - "The streets were indeed a strange sight
Author | : Thomas Humphry Ward |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 646 |
Release | : 1887 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Rusk |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 524 |
Release | : 1901 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : |
An accurate and authentic account of the late Queen of Great Britain and Ireland and Empress of India, relating the incidents and events of her public and private life, together with a summary of the splendid achievements of her reign, sketches of royalty, and of the leading statesmen of her time. Also a concise history of England and her colonies during the Victorian Era.
Author | : Hourly History |
Publisher | : Hourly History |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 2016-09-19 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1537586009 |
The Queen of Great Britain and Ireland for 63 years, the mother of nine children and grandmother to 42, Queen Victoria’s life was one of magnificent proportions. Victoria’s childhood was difficult and lonely but from the time she took the throne aged just eighteen she blossomed into a powerful woman, both frivolous and formidable. Inside you will read about... ✓ An Unsentimental Marriage ✓ Race to Produce an Heir ✓ Finally an Adult and Finally a Queen ✓ V&A ✓ Die Shattenseite ✓ The Hungry Forties and Albert’s Great Exhibition ✓ The Widow at Windsor And much more! In her later years, Victoria struggled to find balance between her wish to live a very private life as a widow and her duty to live the very public life of a Queen and later Empress. The world Victoria was born into was a very different world to that which she left behind and her life story is an incredible journey from infant heir to matriarchal Queen and Empress.
Author | : John McGilchrist |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2021-04-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
This book presents exciting accounts of the life of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 1837 until she died in 1901. The writer entertains the readers with several unknown facts about the famous queen. Since her life cannot be separated from the events of that era, this work becomes a powerful portrayal of the history of Great Britain.
Author | : Greg King |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2007-06-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 047004439X |
Features the court of Britain's longest-reigning monarch Royalty and the Victorian era, with coverage of the people, pageantry, and power of Queen Victoria's court. Beginning with the Queen's 1897 Diamond Jubilee, this book describes her long reign. It paints a portrait of a unique ruler at the height of empire.
Author | : Victoria (Queen of Great Britain) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1881 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Victoria (Queen of Great Britain) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 47 |
Release | : 1898 |
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ISBN | : |