TY  - BOOK
AU  - Baird,Julia
TI  - Victoria The Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire 
SN  - 9781400069880
AV  - DA554 .B18 2016
U1  - 941.081092B 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Random House
KW  - Victoria,
KW  - Queens
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Biography
KW  - History
KW  - Victoria, 1837-1901
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 625-650) and index; The race to the crown -- The birth of "pocket Hercules" -- The lonely, naughty princess -- An impossible, strange madness -- "Awful scenes in the house" -- Becoming queen: "I shall not fail" -- The coronation: "a dream out of the Arabian nights" -- Learning to rule -- A scandal in the palace -- Virago in love -- The bride: "I never, never spent such an evening" -- Only the husband, not the master -- The palace intruders -- King to all intents: "like a vulture into his prey" -- Perfect, awful, spotless prosperity -- Annus Mirabilis: the revolutionary year -- What Albert did: the Great Exhibition of 1851 -- The Crimea: 'This unsatisfactory war' -- London boils over -- Royal parents: "everything passes so quickly!" -- "Who will call me Victoria now?" -- "The whole house seems like Pompeii." -- Resuscitating the widow at Windsor -- The queen's stallion -- The faery queen awakes -- Enough to kill any man -- Two ironclads colliding: the queen and Mr. Gladstone -- The monarch in a bonnet -- The "poor munshi" -- The diamond empire -- The end of the Victorian Age - "The streets were indeed a strange sight."
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