The Young Victoria
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Before she became the most powerful woman in the world, Victoria was a sheltered, fiercely monitored child — and Alison Plowden's The Young Victoria chronicles the remarkable journey from a lonely, cloistered Kensington Palace upbringing to the moment an eighteen-year-old girl assumed the crown of the British Empire. With meticulous historical research, Plowden reconstructs the suffocating Kensington System devised by Victoria's mother and the scheming Sir John Conroy, painting a vivid portrait of a young woman who possessed a will of iron beneath her tender years. The narrative captures the intrigue, power struggles, and emotional battles that shaped one of history's most iconic monarchs, from her fraught childhood friendships to her early, tentative steps into statecraft. Plowden writes with an assured, elegant authority that brings the Victorian era's drawing rooms and palace corridors to life with cinematic clarity. Her biography argues that the true measure of Victoria's greatness lies not in her long reign, but in the extraordinary resilience she forged during her formative years — a resilience born of isolation, manipulation, and an unwavering sense of royal destiny. For readers fascinated by the private lives of public figures, this account leaves one wondering: how much of the legendary queen was made, and how much was simply inevitable?
Author: Alison Plowden
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Before she became the most powerful woman in the world, Victoria was a sheltered, fiercely monitored child — and Alison Plowden's The Young Victoria chronicles the remarkable journey from a lonely, cloistered Kensington Palace upbringing to the moment an eighteen-year-old girl assumed the crown of the British Empire. With meticulous historical research, Plowden reconstructs the suffocating Kensington System devised by Victoria's mother and the scheming Sir John Conroy, painting a vivid portrait of a young woman who possessed a will of iron beneath her tender years. The narrative captures the intrigue, power struggles, and emotional battles that shaped one of history's most iconic monarchs, from her fraught childhood friendships to her early, tentative steps into statecraft. Plowden writes with an assured, elegant authority that brings the Victorian era's drawing rooms and palace corridors to life with cinematic clarity. Her biography argues that the true measure of Victoria's greatness lies not in her long reign, but in the extraordinary resilience she forged during her formative years — a resilience born of isolation, manipulation, and an unwavering sense of royal destiny. For readers fascinated by the private lives of public figures, this account leaves one wondering: how much of the legendary queen was made, and how much was simply inevitable?