Best Biography Of Queen Victoria - April 2024

Victoria: The Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire

The true story for fans of the PBS Masterpiece series Victoria, this page-turning biography reveals the real woman behind the myth: a bold, glamorous, unbreakable queen—a Victoria for our times. Drawing on previously unpublished papers, this stunning new portrait is a story of love and heartbreak, of devotion and grief, of strength and resilience.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYTHE NEW YORK TIMES • ESQUIRE • THE CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY“Victoria the Queen, Julia Baird’s exquisitely wrought and meticulously researched biography, brushes the dusty myth off this extraordinary mo... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1400069882
• ASIN: 1400069882
• ISBN: 9781400069880
• Brand: Random House
• Manufacturer: Random House

Queen Victoria's Mysterious Daughter: A Biography of Princess Louise

Spirited and lively, Queen Victoria's Mysterious Daughter is richly packed with arguments, intrigues, scandals, and secrets, and is a vivid portrait of a princess desperate to escape her inheritance.The secrets of Queen Victoria's sixth child, Princess Louise, may be destined to remain hidden forever. What was so dangerous about this artistic, tempestuous royal that her life has been documented more by rumor and gossip than hard facts? When Lucinda Hawksley started to investigate, often thwarted by inexplicable secrecy, she discovered a fascinating woman, modern before her time, whose story ha... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1250130360
• ASIN: 1250130360
• ISBN: 1250130360
• Manufacturer: A Thomas Dunne Book for St. Martin's Griffin

We Two: Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals

• ASIN: B0029WRHFS
• ASIN: B0029WRHFS
• Manufacturer: Ballantine Books

Queen Victoria: A Personal History

In this surprising new life of Victoria, Christopher Hibbert, master of the telling anecdote and peerless biographer of England's great leaders, paints a fresh and intimate portrait of the woman who shaped a century. His Victoria is not only the formidable, demanding, capricious queen of popular imagination—she is also often shy, diffident, and vulnerable, prone to giggling fits and crying jags. Often censorious when confronted with her mother's moral lapses, she herself could be passionately sensual, emotional, and deeply sentimental. Ascending to the throne at age eighteen, Victoria ruled ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0306810859
• ASIN: 0306810859
• ISBN: 0306810859
• Manufacturer: Da Capo Press

Victoria: A Life

“[A] shimmering and rather wonderful biography.” —The Guardian (London)When Queen Victoria died in 1901, she had ruled for nearly sixty-four years. She was the mother of nine and grandmother of forty-two and the matriarch of royal Europe through her children’s marriages. To many, Queen Victoria is a ruler shrouded in myth and mystique, an aging, stiff widow paraded as the figurehead to an all-male imperial enterprise. But in truth, Britain’s longest-reigning monarch was one of the most passionate, expressive, humorous, and unconventional women who ever lived, and the story of her li... [Read More]

• ASIN: 014312787X
• ASIN: 014312787X
• ISBN: 014312787X
• Brand: Penguin Books
• Manufacturer: Penguin Books

Queen Victoria: Icon Of An Era

When we think of Queen Victoria, whose reign eclipsed that of every British king and queen before her, we imagine the Widow of Windsor, reclusive in her palace, draped in permanent mourning for her beloved husband, Albert, the Prince Consort, who died in 1861. But this book takes the reader on a journey that starts before her marriage, before she came to be seen as the static icon of the age that bears her name. From her isolated childhood at Kensington Palace, where her daily life was controlled by a man who plotted to one day seize power through her, Victoria emerged shortly after her 18th b... [Read More]

• ASIN: B06W2MVP6P
• ASIN: B06W2MVP6P
• Manufacturer: Make Profits Easy LLC

Queen Victoria's Gene (Pocket Biographies)

The only book to investigate the sudden appearance of the haemophilia gene in the Royal Family

• ASIN: 0750911999
• ASIN: 0750911999
• ISBN: 0750911999
• Brand: The History Press
• Manufacturer: Sutton Publishing

Queen Victoria's Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages that Shaped Europe

A captivating exploration of the role in which Queen Victoria exerted the most international power and influence: as a matchmaking grandmother.As her reign approached its sixth decade, Queen Victoria's grandchildren numbered over thirty, and to maintain and increase British royal power, she was determined to maneuver them into a series of dynastic marriages with the royal houses of Europe.Yet for all their apparent obedience, her grandchildren often had plans of their own, fueled by strong wills and romantic hearts. Victoria's matchmaking plans were further complicated by the tumultuous intern... [Read More]

• ASIN: B072V66RZG
• ASIN: B072V66RZG
• Manufacturer: PublicAffairs

The Last Princess: The Devoted Life of Queen Victoria's Youngest Daughter

An engrossing biography of Queen Victoria’s youngest daughter that focuses on her relationship with her willful mother---a powerful and insightful look into two women of signi?cant importance and in?uence in world history.Beatrice was the last child born to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Her father died when she was four and Victoria came to depend on her youngest daughter absolutely, and also demanded from her complete submission. Victoria was not above laying it down regally even with her own children. Beatrice succumbed to her mother’s obsessive love, so that by the time she was in ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0312376987
• ASIN: 0312376987
• ISBN: 0312376987
• Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press

Katherine of Aragon, The True Queen: A Novel (Six Tudor Queens)

Bestselling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir takes on what no fiction writer has done before: creating a dramatic six-book series in which each novel covers one of King Henry VIII’s wives. In this captivating opening volume, Weir brings to life the tumultuous tale of Katherine of Aragon, Henry’s first, devoted, and “true” queen.   A princess of Spain, Catalina is only sixteen years old when she sets foot on the shores of England. The youngest daughter of the powerful monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella, Catalina is a coveted prize for a royal marriage—and Arthur, Prince of Wa... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1101966505
• ASIN: 1101966505
• ISBN: 1101966505
• Brand: BALLANTINE
• Manufacturer: Ballantine Books

Queen Victoria: The Definitive Biography of England's Famous Ruler (A Harvest / HBJ Book)

This is the definitive biography of Britain’s greatest monarch, who “was hailed at once as the mother of her people and as the embodied symbol of their imperial greatness.” “One of the surpassingly beautiful prose achievements of our time” (Chicago Daily News). Index; illustrations.

• ASIN: 015675696X
• ASIN: 015675696X
• ISBN: 015675696X
• Manufacturer: Harcourt

Queen Victoria: A Life From Beginning to End (Royalty Biography Book 1)

Queen VictoriaThe 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 WindsorAnd much more!In her... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01LZUEHA3
• ASIN: B01LZUEHA3

Queen Victoria's Little Wars

"Tells all the old stories of imperial heroism con brio." ―Noel Annan, New York Review of Books From 1837 to 1901, in Asia, China, Canada, Africa, and elsewhere, military expedition were constantly being undertaken to protect resident Britons or British interests, to extend a frontier, to repel an attack, avenge an insult, or suppress a mutiny or rebellion. Continuous warfare became an accepted way of life in the Victorian era, and in the process the size of the British Empire quadrupled. But engrossing as these small wars are―and they bristle with bizarre, tragic, and often humorous incid... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0393302350
• ASIN: 0393302350
• ISBN: 0393302350
• Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

The Personal Life of Queen Victoria

“The Queen of England, the Empress of India, the Woman of the world.”In The Personal Life of Queen Victoria Sarah A Tooley narrates the intimate events in the monarch’s life in order to reveal the personal history and character of the Queen.First published in 1897 to coincide with Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee, Tooley illustrates the woman behind the crown and empire.The writer moves seamlessly through the Queen’s life from her lonely childhood, to her intrepid early years as an unmarried queen, through the heady days of betrothal, the loving years of marriage and finally to her h... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01LBK1KAG
• ASIN: B01LBK1KAG
• Manufacturer: Endeavour Compass

The Illustrated Queen Victoria

Traces the life of the Queen, describes her personal relationships, and discusses her influence on British history

• ASIN: 155584295X
• ASIN: 155584295X
• ISBN: 155584295X
• Manufacturer: Weindenfeld & Nicholson

Victoria: The Queen : An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire

"Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC, in 2016."--Title page

• UPC: 55970585
• Rating: 4.25

Queen Victoria: Twenty-Four Days That Changed Her Life

The story of the queen who defied convention and defined an era A passionate princess, an astute and clever queen, and a cunning widow, Victoria played many roles throughout her life. In Queen Victoria: Twenty-Four

• UPC: 136705035

Her Little Majesty : The Life of Queen Victoria

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• UPC: 49742998
• Rating: 4.0

Born to Rule : Five Reigning Consorts, Granddaughters of Queen Victoria

9780312324247

• UPC: 25953285
• Rating: 3.5

Queen Victoria - eBook

Queen Victoria, born Alexandrina Victoria (1819 - 1901) ruled the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 1837 until her death. At the age of 18 she inherited the throne, ruling for 63 years,

• UPC: 439194539
• Rating: 4.0

Queen Victoria - eBook

Lytton Strachey's first great success, and his most famous achievement, was "Eminent Victorians" (1918), a collection of four short biographies of Victorian heroes. With a dry wit, he exposed the human failings of his subjects

• UPC: 936793715
• Rating: 4.0

Queen Victoria (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) - eBook

Hailed by the London Times as a “brilliant masterpiece” and by E. M. Forster as a work that “revolutionized the art of biography,” this book examines the life, but more so the psychology, of Queen

• UPC: 193035859
• Rating: 4.0

Queen Victoria - eBook

Queen Victoria was the longest reigning monarch in British history. In this concise biography, Lady Longford, long recognized as an authority on the subject, gives a full account of Queen Victoria’s life and provides her

• UPC: 128453729
• Rating: 4.0

Queen Victoria

Highly readable brief lives of those who have played a significant part in

• UPC: 11072890
• Rating: 4.0

Queen Victoria's Mysterious Daughter : A Biography of Princess Louise

Intrigue, scandal, and secrets abound in this lush royal biography penned by the great-great-great granddaughter of Charles

• UPC: 55861901
• Rating: 4.5