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Queen Victoria: A Personal History

Christopher Hibbert’s acclaimed biography of Queen Victoria is as impressive and authoritative as the great woman herself.

In 1837 an eighteen-year-old girl, raised by a German mother, inherited the throne of the United Kingdom. She was to reign as queen – and later Empress of India – for almost sixty-four years, presiding over twenty prime ministers and a period of unprecedented social and political change. Her era became synonymous with moral rigidity and colonial expansion, and this absorbing biography of Queen Victoria, the unlikely figurehead of a vast and powerful empire, explores how the young monarch transformed herself into a formidable matriarch and the epitome of an age.

Embracing her life and family, her politics and personality, her love for Prince Albert and her relationship with John Brown, Hibbert’s touching biography is a persuasive portrait of a remarkable woman.

Important places

Kensington Palace (27)
Balmoral Castle (39)

Regions

Aberdeenshire (62)
Kensington and Chelsea (116)

Countries

United Kingdom (21,421)

Other geographical areas

Grampian Mountains (308)
Scotland (1,567)
Yorkshire and The Humber (6,115)
North of England (7,026)
Greater London (7,856)