Book description
I delight in this work', wrote the young Victoria shortly after she
became Queen. She was an engaging creature, high-spirited and eager to
be 'amused'. But her early years were difficult ones. Fatherless from
the age of eight months, she was brought up at Kensington Palace in an
atmosphere thick with family feuds, backbiting and jealousy - the
focus of conflicting ambitions. Though her uncle William IV was
anxious to bring her into Court circles, her German mother and the
calculating John Conroy were equally determined that she should remain
under their control. The 'little Queen', who succeeded to the throne a
month after her eighteenth birthday, was greeted by a unanimous chorus
of praise and admiration. She met and married Albert, marking the end
of her childhood and the beginning of a glorious legend. Alison
Plowden was one of the most successful and popular historians of
British history. Her bestselling books include: The House of Tudor,
The Young Elizabeth, Lady Jane Grey and Danger to Elizabeth.
