02184nam 22003853 450 991015170990332120230808200328.0(CKB)3710000000948649(MiAaPQ)EBC6099346(Au-PeEL)EBL6099346(OCoLC)1156222772(EXLCZ)99371000000094864920210901d2016 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierVictoria An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an EmpireWestminster :Random House Publishing Group,2016.©2016.1 online resource (693 pages)1-4000-6988-2 0-679-60505-3 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."Great BritainHistoryVictoria, 1837-1901941.081092 BBaird Julia1247440MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910151709903321Victoria2891833UNINA