A Brief Biogrpahy of Queen Victoria (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

Originally published in 1900 as a portion of the author’s larger “Leaders of the 19th Century with Some Noted Characters of Earlier Times,” this Kindle edition, equivalent in length to a physical book of approximately 16 pages, describes the life of Great Britain’s Queen Victoria, who reigned from 1837 to 1901.Sample passage:King William IV died early on the morning of the 20th of June, 1837. The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Lord Chamberlain started immediately for Kensington Palace to announce the event to the princess. Reaching the palace about five o’clock in the morning, they sent the announcement that they had come “on business of state to the queen.” She came into the room with her eyes filled with tears. The first words of the new queen were, “I ask your prayers on my behalf.” As soon as the messengers had left her, she wrote a letter of sympathy to her aunt, Queen Adelaide, asking her to remain at Windsor as long as she liked. Windsor Castle is always at the service of the king or queen, and would consequently now fall to Victoria. She addressed the letter to “Her Majesty the Queen.” Someone suggested that the address was incorrect, as she herself was now queen. “I am quite aware of her majesty’s altered character; but I will not be the first person to remind her of it,” she answered.