Victoria The Queen The Woman Who Shaped The Modern World First Edition Baird by Baird, Julia (julia Woodlands) instant download after payment.

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.\"