Queen Victoria at Home

By Michael De-la-Noy

Book Overview

Alexandrina Victoria may have been an exemplary constitutional monarch in politics and international affairs, but she was equally interested and active in her domestic life, both as a wife and mother and as a ruler over her household. This combination of decorum and dignity with a genuine love of home and family life provides the ultimate key to her character. Michael de-la-Noy, biographer of the Queen Mother and of George IV, has fashioned a revealing and thorough portrait of this other side to her reign, from her youth spent in preparation for succession to her final years as matriarch of a family that extended into all the royal houses of Europe. De-la-Noy's impressionistic, intimate biography focuses on her personal life, her relations with her family and household, and her various residences. Queen Victoria at Home goes behind her civic role of a conscientious and hardworking sovereign to reveal a most devoted wife and the mother of nine children, who treasured domestic privacy over public adulation.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786711787
• ISBN13: 9780786711789
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.7" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Four Stars

An easy read on Queen Victoria. This book adds nothing new but simply rehash everything that you've read in other biographies on Queen Victoria. Its not a bad book it is very well written and I enjoyed it very much. But if your expecting any new information on her you won't find it in this book.

easy book about victoria

this good bood on basic facts about queen victoria and her era.this is a easy read.