Victoria : Portrait of a Queen

Victoria woke one morning at the age of eighteen to discover that her uncle had died and she was now queen.

She went on to rule for sixty-three years, with an influence so far-reaching that the decades of her reign now bear her name-the Victorian period.

Victoria is filled with the exciting comings and goings of royal life: intrigue and innuendo, scheming advisors, and assassination attempts, not to mention plenty of passion and discord.

Includes bibliography, notes, British royal family tree, index.