Victoria : the queen : the woman who shaped the modern world by Baird, Julia (Julia Woodlands) instant download

Victoria : the queen : the woman who shaped the modern world by Baird, Julia (Julia Woodlands) instant download

pages cm, Includes bibliographical references 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.\"