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Her Little Majesty: The Life of Queen Victoria
Written by Carolly Erickson
Narrated by Nelson Runger
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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About this audiobook
Her Little Majesty is a fresh and fascinating portrait of the diminutive monarch who ruled the vast British empire for over 60 years. Award-winning biographer and historian, Carolly Erickson, transports you behind the walls of Buckingham Palace to introduce you to the quirky, loveable Queen Victoria-revealed only to her closest associates. Emotionally deprived, inadequately educated, and socially isolated for much of her life, young Victoria felt ill-prepared to ascend the throne. But the 19-year-old queen met her coronation day with outward dignity and confidence-then went home to bathe her pet dog. Even though her frequent temper tantrums and neurotic obsessions would have critics repeatedly fearing for her sanity, she became a powerful ruler, relentlessly leading her country through devastating wars and sweeping political reform. Carolly Erickson draws on diaries, letters, and historical documents to pen this dramatic account of England's popular matriarch and the turbulent era that carries her name. Narrator Nelson Runger will hold you enthralled as the glory and the adversities of the Victorian age unfold.
Author
Carolly Erickson
Distinguished historian Carolly Erickson is the author of Rival to the Queen, The Memoirs of Mary Queen of Scots, The First Elizabeth, The Hidden Life of Josephine, The Last Wife of Henry VIII, and many other prize-winning works of fiction and nonfiction. Her novel The Tsarina’s Daughter won the Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award for Best Historical Fiction. She lives in Hawaii.
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Reviews for Her Little Majesty
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I loved the information I got from the book, HOWEVER I did not need to be reminded (literally sometimes several times per chapter) on how "unattractive" and "fat" Victoria was. I was really put off in general at how obsessed the author was with the attractivness of all the women, and it was unually irrelevant to the point. So she was unattractive, who cares? Anyway, just my 2 cents, it just felt really unnecessary and rubbed me the wrong way.