Queen Victoria : twenty-four days that changed her life /
Lucy Worsley.
- 421 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits, genealogical table
I. A naughty daughter -- Double wedding : Kew Palace, 11 July 1818 -- Birth : Kensington Palace, 24 May 1819 -- Wet feet : Sidmouth, 23 January 1820 -- 'I will be good' : Kensington Palace, 11 March 1830 -- The three missing weeks : Ramsgate, October 1835 -- Albert : Kensington Palace, 18 May 1836 -- Accession : Kensington Palace, 20 June 1837 -- Coronation : Buckingham Palace, 28 June 1838 -- In Lady Flora's bedchamber : Buckingham Palace, 27 June 1839 -- II. The good wife -- The proposal : Windsor Castle, 10-15 October 1839 -- Wedding day : three palaces, 10 February 1840 -- 'Oh madam it is a princess' : Buckingham Palace, 21 November 1840 -- Christmas at Windsor : 25 December 1850 -- A Maharaja on the Isle of Wight : 21-24 August 1854 -- Miss Nightingale at Balmoral : 21 September 1856 -- A night with Nellie : 6 September 1861 -- The blue room : Windsor Castle, 14 December 1861 -- III. The widow of Windsor -- 18. 'Sewer-poison' : Sandringham, 13 December 1871 -- Lunch with Disraeli : Hughenden Manor, 15 December 1877 -- John Brown's legs : 6 March 1884 -- Baby gets married : Osborne House, 23 July 1885 -- Munshi-mania : Excelsior Hotel Regina, French Riviera, 4 April 1897 -- Apotheosis : London, 22 June 1897 -- Deathbed : Osborne, 22 January 1901.
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Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901.
Queens--Biography.--Great Britain
Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901. Great Britain--Kings and rulers--Biography.