![]() Also very interesting, less dramatized but I was still entertained particularly by the quotes directly from the writings of the people who were involved in the events. Ended up listening to Victoria a Portrait of a Queen by Catherine Reef. ![]() ![]() So when I finished this one I looked into some other books about Queen Victoria. It also got me wondering about how true to life the telling actually is. Listening was just like watching the show in my mind but with more detail. I watched the Masterpiece show first and then picked this audio book up while I was impatiently waiting for season 3 to start. ![]() 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.ĭrawing on Victoria’s diaries as well as her own brilliant gifts for history and drama, Daisy Goodwin, author of the bestselling novels The American Heiress and The Fortune Hunter as well as creator and writer of the new PBS/Masterpiece drama Victoria, brings the young queen even more richly to life in this magnificent novel. ![]()
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