Queen Victoria (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
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ISBN: 0140183930 / Publisher: Penguin Group USA, August 1997
A biography of the British queen covers her childhood, relations with other heads of state, devotion to Prince Albert, and the psychological influences on her character
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The wit and astringency of Eminent Victorians have mellowed in this endearing portrait of England's first 'respectable' monarch. Strachey's study of her youth, with its Whiggish sympathies and the unseen influences of Baroness Lehzen, King Leopold and Baron Stockmar, of her total surrender to Prince Albert, of her relations with Melbourne, Peel, Palmerston and Disraeli, may cast an image almost as legendary as the pious icon that it replaced.
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