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Acclaimed historian A. N. Wilson gives a sweeping, definitive biography of 1 of the most recognizable, yet enigmatic monarchs ever. The longest reigning British isles monarch and female sovereign in history, Queen Victoria was a amount of profound paradox who may have mystified historians for over a century. Now in this magisterial biography, A.N. Wilson rebukes the conventional knowledge about her life - that she was merely a "funny little girl in a bonnet" who do next to nothing - showing she was in fact intensely involved in express affairs despite a public façade of inaction. A lot more than just the stock image of a stuffy, unsmiling widow in mourning, Wilson's complete immersion in Victoria's many letters and publications unveils a carefully nuanced family portrait of your monarch possessed by family immigrant insecurities, a unwilling public amount who discovered to exploit public display, a mother who hated motherhood, and above all, a politics luminary who created and managed the storyplot of her life, true or otherwise. Victoria brings to life its subject in every her many moods and stages: her so-called unpleasant childhood, her early on years of politics inexperience as a pawn to advisers and statesmen, her keen marriage to Prince Albert and the incessant public criticism, her famed mourning period after Albert's early on death, and lastly, the captivating last generations of her guideline as Empress of India. After practically 2 decades as an eccentric, reclusive mourner, she emerged, self-confident and solid, as an out-and-out imperialist who harnessed royalty with British isles foreign policy and since the figurehead of military and monetary world domination. Wilson tells a story of triumph against painful chances and gives the family portrait of a woman battling with demons and overcoming them, largely together. Despite everything, she came up to embody the British isles people's connection with their own lives.
