![]() A refreshingly human image of the Queen emerges: voluble, passionate, politic and articulate, with an irresistible mixture of grandeur and simplicity. Drawing upon Queen Victorias previously unpublished journals, Elizabeth Longfords classic biography recalls the contrasts and curiosities of an earlier. 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. 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. In this concise biography, Lady Longford, long recognised as an authority on the subject, gives a full account of Queen. ‘The truth was stranger than any of the fictions that have since been offered to explain her away’ĭrawing upon Queen Victoria’s previously unpublished journals, Elizabeth Longford’s classic biography recalls the contrasts and curiosities of an earlier era with exquisite detail – and transforms the queen from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. Queen Victoria was the longest reigning monarch in British history. ![]()
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