Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed (1964)

Format: Hardcover Condition: Acceptable This is an ex-library book with the usual markings. The book has a slight amount of shelf wear. Contents Description: This brilliantly informed and perceptive narrative shows the young Queen tormented by an unhappy childhood, enraptured by love match, tantalized by a brief marriage, driven by the shock of the Prince Consort's death into a long retirement. Then, impelled by an iron sense of duty, the secluded widow emerges at last—to rule her vast Empire as a mother and her large, high-spirited family as a Queen. - from the inside flap