Queen Victoria

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Queen Victoria is the longest-reigning monarch in British history. In this concise biography Lady Longford long recognised as an authority on the subject gives a full account of Queen Victorias life & provides her unique assessment of the monarch. David Cannadine hailed her Victoria RI as pre-eminent in the genre...the commissioned biography that the great Queen never got. Victoria ascended the throne in 1837 on the death of her uncle William IV. In 1840 she married her first cousin Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha & for the next twenty years they were inseperable. Their descendants were to succeed to most of the thrones of Europe. When Albert died in 1861 Victorias overwhelming grief meant that she virtually withdrew from public life. This perceived dereliction of public duty coupled with rumours about her relationship with her Scottish ghillie John Brown led to increasing criticism. Coaxed back into the public eye by Disraeli she resumed her former enthusiasm for political & constitutional matters with vigour until her death in 1901.