Carole Matthews is one of the bestselling women's fiction writers around. General Fiction
Synopsis
A fatherless girl grows up a virtual prisoner in the shabby backwater of Kensington Palace, despised by her relations, bullied and insulted by her foolish mother’s evil genius. Only the core of stubbornness in her character sustains her as she waits for the day of deliverance – the day she will become Queen of England. She is Victoria.
With humanity and humour the Queen Empress looks back over eighty crowded years, remembering domestic crisis and public triumph, revolution, war and the fall of dynasties; remembering most of all the great and abiding love that illuminated every aspect of her life.
In the autobiography Queen Victoria might have written, Harrod-Eagles combines scholarship and story-telling to reveal the private woman behind the private mask.
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