Queen Victoria in Her Letters and Journals

This revealing selection from the Queens papers provides essential clues to her character tracing her development from shy princess to the formidable and uncompromising grande dame of Europe. How did she feel on hearing that she had become queen? How close was she to her eldest grandchild who became Kaiser Wilhelm II? Why was she so reluctant to yield the crown to her son and heir the future King Edward VII? What did she really think of Gladstone and Disraeli? These questions and many more are answered clearly and candidly in the Queens own words. Victorias passionate adoration of Prince Albert is evident throughout her journals and later extracts give a touching insight into her feelings of loneliness and susceptibility after his death. Illustrated with some of the Queens own drawings this book presents an absorbing account of one of the most remarkable personalities of the nineteenth century.