A refreshingly human image of the Queen emerges: voluble, passionate, politic and articulate, with an irresistible mixture of grandeur and simplicity. Rendered with affection and respect, Elizabeth Longfords full, frank portrait reveals Victoria as a fascinating and complicated woman - a woman of diminutive.

winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography. She chronicles both the Queen's public life and her emotional travails, including surprisingly stormy passages in her and Prince Albert's otherwise loving marriage. lecture tour, on the day of Queen Victorias funeral in 1900, in order to embark on his. Longford probes the contradictions of a woman who wore a bonnet instead of a crown at her Golden Jubilee and yet was recognised always as both dignified and formidable. Queen Victoria: Essential Biographies (Paperback). Using unrestricted access to material from the Royal Archives, including previously unpublished passages Queen Victorias celebrated Journals, Elizabeth. 'The truth was stranger than any of the fictions that have since been offered to explain her away' Drawing upon Queen Victoria's previously unpublished journals, Elizabeth Longford's classic biography recalls the contrasts and curiosities of an earlier era with exquisite detail - and transforms the queen from a severe, time-worn effigy into a human being who loved, feared and fumed. Queen Victoria is the longest-reigning monarch in British history. Explore books by Elizabeth Longford with our selection at.

Queen Victoria by Elizabeth Longford