In this surprising new life of Victoria, Christopher Hibbert, master of the telling anecdote and peerless biographer of England\'s great leaders, paints a fresh and intimate portrait of the woman who shaped a century.
Often censorious when confronted with her mother\'s moral lapses, she herself could be passionately s.
His Victoria is not only the formidable, demanding, capricious Queen of popular imagination--she is also often shy, diffident, and vulnerable, prone to giggling fits and crying jags.
In this surprising new life of Victoria, Christopher Hibbert, master of the telling anecdote and peerless biographer of England\'s great leaders, paints a fresh and intimate portrait of the woman who shaped a century