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Becoming Queen Victoria: The Unexpected Rise of Britain's Greatest Monarch
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Listening Length: 16 hours and 27 minutes
Program Type: Audiobook
Version: Unabridged
Publisher: Random House Audio
Audible.com Release Date: January 6, 2017
Language: English, English
ASIN: B01N5MUDN3
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As an English major, it was always important to understand the monarchy when viewing literature, since so very often much of the story would include references to conditions, incidents and personalities existing at the time. Chaucer, Milton, Shakespeare, and Dickens are but a few prime examples. Thus, I developed a fascination with the history of the British monarchy and have read numerous biographies and factual historical novels about everyone from Harold and William the Conqueror, to the War of the Roses and the subsequent Tudor era, to Victoria and the modern monarchy. However, in all that reading, I never read a good biography, or even a story, of the Regency Era that included significant information about Princess Charlotte. Most simply mention her in, at best, a chapter or two. This book gives a wonderfully detailed account of the birth and life of Charlotte, including appropriate background, such as the dissipation of her father and the tension between her parents and the effect on her. It is hardly a spoiler to say that the death of Charlotte paved the way for Victoria. The book also provides a short history of Albert (which only slightly mitigated my dislike of him). For anyone at all interested in the public and private events leading up to, and including the first part of, Victoria's reign, this is the book for you. Everything is supported by personal or first hand documentation. The footnoting is unobtrusive and easy to navigate on an e-reader. I expect that readers of tangible books would still have to flip between pages. The book is highly readable. I enthusiastically recommend it.
When most people think of Queen Victoria, they think of a small woman in a black dress and veil. What is not so well known, is that she was once a lively girl who loved dancing and thought little of one day becoming Queen of England. When she was born, she had several obstacles to inheriting the throne. First, her father was the third son of George III, putting two uncles and any children they had in front of her. Second, she was a girl at a time when boys still were in line in front of their older sisters. This well researched book not only covers Victoria's childhood with a difficult mother and the early years of her reign, but also the life of Princess Charlotte, her older cousin, who was the Princess Diana of her day.
Prior to reading this book, I knew very little about Queen Victoria and I'd never even heard of Princess Charlotte. I enjoyed learning about this section of British history, and I felt like cheering on Victoria as her mother and her mother's adviser John Conroy tried to bully her as a girl. I had not known that Queen Victoria was the origin of the white wedding gown tradition, or that she was the beginning of the end of power in the British monarchy system.I do agree with the reviewers that said the ending of the book was rushed. Two pages after Victoria and Albert's second child was born, Albert was dead, and a page or two later, the book was on Victoria's golden jubilee. I actually flipped back a few pages on my kindle to see if I'd skipped ahead accidentally. I hadn't.
This is a delightful biography, although unlike the title, I would not consider Victoria England's greatest monarch. Surely that honor goes to Elizabeth I...or maybe in time Elizabeth II. The little lady who became Queen Victoria at eighteen, however, easily morphed from a stultifying childhood under the thumb of her mother to a world stage figure with enormous clout and a stubborn mind of her own.But long before Victoria's birth, Princess Charlotte, who became the House of Hanover's only heir, the daughter of the Prince Regent and the German princess Caroline, would die in childbirth along with her baby son. The preliminary pages to the history of Victoria make fascinating reading. Surely the House of Hanover was a den of scorpions, but the popular Princess Charlotte, blonde, blue eyed with a buoyant personality, was the hope of the nation as an antidote to the worthless, profligate Prince Regent, her father, and the rest of George III's dysfunctional family. Charlotte was the Princess Diana of her day.Charlotte married Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg, an impecunious but handsome young man, and it was a love match. Charlotte was soon pregnant, and her doctors, noticing the princess was larger than usual as the baby developed, hoped to curb the fetus from growing too big. They starved Charlotte and bled her frequently and when the weakened Charlotte went into labor the contractions were not strong enough to dispel the baby. A large fine boy was eventually born dead and Charlotte succumbed shortly after. She was twenty one.The nation was devastated. Of George III's 56 grandchildren not one was legitimate. The various royal dukes abandoned their mistresses in hopes of siring the future king of England in an unseemly dash to find a wife. The Duke of Kent, fourth in line for the throne, 50 and fat, dumped his mistress and married the Protestant widow Victoire of Saxe-Gotha, the sister of Charlotte's bereaved husband Leopold. Victoire was twenty years younger than the duke but the marriage was happy and produced the baby Victoria in 1819. However, the Duke died of pneumonia in 1820.Victoire and her friend John Conroy, a handsome Irishman with few scruples whom she appointed as .a sort of majordomo- adviser. saw the writing on the wall and attempted to manipulate Victoria and the entire household in a plan to act as regents for Victoria if she seceded as Queen before she came of age. Victoria grew up highly cherished, but in a household where there were no other children. She was never allowed to be alone and from an early age was used to being on show, acquiring self confidence unusual in a child but she had no freedom to be herself, to be a child. Luckily she never grasped precisely how homely she was in appearance, or if she grasped it she easily rose above it. "She had the Hanoverian recessed chin, prominent nose and slightly goggling eyes. Her blonde hair darkened early, and she was naturally plump, with a tendency to leave her mouth hanging open."(If you look at any portrait of Victoria, you'll see indeed her mouth was slightly open).We cheer when Victoria, after achieving the throne, banishes her domineering mother to rooms far from hers. We see intimate portraits of Lord Melbourne, Victoria's first (and Whig) prime minister,who acted like a very very discrete lover although he was old enough to be Victoria's grandfather. One thing I did not know was that the famous Lady Flora Hastings was a lady in waiting to Victoria's mother from the beginning of her reign and that Victoria, for what ever reasons, probably didn't cotton to Lady Flora and therefore was tempted to believe and perpetrate the juicy gossip that the unwed Flora, whose abdomen started swelling, was pregnant, and by the hated John Conroy. A huge brouhaha erupted, with two camps against each other- Victoire's camp which was Tory, and the Queen's camp which was Whig. Poor Flora was obliged to have a physician examine her and announce publicly she was a certified virgin. Lady Flora shortly after died of a tumor on the liver, but Victoria's image was tarnished as she had enthusiastically put coals on the fire and fanned the ugly rumor's flames.Albert and Victoria. The odd courtship is covered closely in the book. The young man from Coburg was about as far in personality from Victoria as you can get. Albert simply refused to behave as a courtier and pursue the usual aristocratic vices of mistresses and gambling. Until they married, though, Albert did his best to stay up late and charmingly swirl Victoria around on the ballroom floor. After their marriage,the Prince, although Victoria did not realize it, was very much a manipulator as he moved to take over the reins and relieve Victoria from governing. Albert was King in all but name. As this fine biography ends, Albert has managed to get rid of Lehzen, Victoria's governess from her childhood who Albert thought was "crazy" and "stupid." Lehzen was the "final link to her childhood". Melbourne was gone, Peel was in power, a male heir had been born. Perhaps most Britons felt God was in his heaven.
I have been looking for a while for a history of Princess Charlotte - the heir to the throne before Victoria. This gives a good narrative of her life and tragic death.It is also a very good introduction to Victoria herself. A detailed look into how she was raised and the beginning of her reign. It also provides an excellent overview of the politics and social scheming that happened during the lives of both Charlotte and Victoria.It is written in a very readable style. I could hardly put it down at times. Fact-filled and very interesting.
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