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A Novel of a Young Queen
St. Martin's Press
December 2016
On Sale: November 22, 2016
Featuring: Victoria
352 pages
ISBN: 1250045460
EAN: 9781250045461
Kindle: B01IN9HWRI
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Historical | Fiction
“They think I am still a little girl who is not capable
of being a Queen.” Lord Melbourne turned to look at Victoria. “They are
mistaken. I have not known you long, but I observe in you a
natural dignity that cannot be learnt. To me, ma’am, you are
every inch a Queen.” In 1837, less than a month after her eighteenth birthday,
“They think I am still a little girl who is not capable of
being a Queen.” Lord Melbourne turned to look at Victoria. “They are
mistaken. I have not known you long, but I observe in you a
natural dignity that cannot be learnt. To me, ma’am, you are
every inch a Queen.” In 1837, less than a month after her eighteenth birthday,
Alexandrina Victoria – sheltered, small in stature, and
female – became Queen of Great Britain and Ireland. Many
thought it was preposterous: Alexandrina ― Drina to her
family ― had always been tightly controlled by her mother
and her household, and was surely too unprepossessing to
hold the throne. Yet from the moment William IV died, the
young Queen startled everyone: abandoning her hated first
name in favor of Victoria; insisting, for the first time in
her life, on sleeping in a room apart from her mother;
resolute about meeting with her ministers alone. One of those ministers, Lord Melbourne, became Victoria’s
private secretary. Perhaps he might have become more than
that, except everyone argued she was destined to marry her
cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. But Victoria
had met Albert as a child and found him stiff and critical:
surely the last man she would want for a husband…. Drawing on Victoria’s diaries as well as her own brilliant
gifts for history and drama, Daisy Goodwin, author of the
bestselling novels The American Heiress and The Fortune
Hunter as well as creator and writer of the new
PBS/Masterpiece drama Victoria, brings the young queen even
more richly to life in this magnificent novel.
AwardsFresh Fiction Box Not To Miss, Selection, December 2016
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