TY  - BOOK
AU  - Goodwin,Daisy
TI  - Victoria
T2  - Thorndike Press large print core
SN  - 9781410495877
U1  - 823.92 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Waterville, Maine
PB  - Thorndike Press
KW  - Victoria,
KW  - Albert,
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Kings and rulers
KW  - Succession
KW  - History
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Biographical fiction
KW  - Large type books
KW  - lcsh
N2  - In 1837, less than a month after her eighteenth birthday, Alexandrina Victoria - sheltered, small in stature, and female - became Queen of Great Britain and Ireland. From the moment William IV died, the young Queen startled everyone. One of her ministers, Lord Melbourne, became Victoria's private secretary. Perhaps he might have become more than that, except everyone argued she was destined to marry her cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. But Victoria had met Albert as a child and found him stiff and critical: surely the last man she would want for a husband
ER  -