Book description
Albert is dead and the queen is preparing to spend the rest of her
life in mourning. Yet the last years of her reign are to be momentous
years.
Palmerston, then Gladstone and Disraeli, govern her empire through
the high noon of its heyday.
The court at Windsor, Balmoral, Osborne or Buckingham Palace is
perpetually shocked by the Prince of Wales, forever in pursuit of
horses, women and scandal, the heady harbinger of Edwardian years to come.
Jean Plaidy, one of the pre-eminent authors of historical fiction for
most of the twentieth century, is the pen name of the prolific English
author Eleanor Hibbert, also know as Victoria Holt. Jean Plaidy's novels
had sold more than 14 million copies worldwide by the time of her death
in 1993.
