Strachey's ability to humanize Queen Victoria while also highlighting her significance in shaping the Victorian era sets this book apart from conventional biographies.

The events of Victoria's life are portrayed against the political and social history of Britain and the Empire.

On November 6, 1817, died the Princess Charlotte, only child of the Prince Regent, and heir to the crown of England.

This is not only the story of their lives in terms of world impact, but also of their own personal achievements, their individual contributions to public life in Britain and overseas and in their roles as the children of Queen Victoria and ...

This work tells the love story of the royal couple against the changing background of 19th-century Germany.

... Prussia , Augusta , Princess of ( Queen of Prus- sia , Empress of Germany ) , at Baden , 67 ; proposed visit of Princess Alice to , 68 ; passes through Darmstadt , 71 ; visit to Princess Alice , 192 ; Prince ... Victoria writes to , 146 ; his ...

... England with Her Majesty , I. 246 . Prussia , Sigismund , Prince of ( son of Crown Prince and Princess ) , Princess Alice's account of , 1. 164 ; illness of , I. 215 ; death of , I. 221 ; II . 54 . Prussia , Victoria ... Queen Victoria , of ...

Letters to her Majesty the Queen with a memoir by H. R. H. Princess Christian. In two volumes Alice. of Crown Prince and Prin- cess ) , in England with Her Majesty , I. 246 . Prussia , Sigismund , Prince of ( son of Crown Prince and ...

Reproduction of the original: Queen Victoria by Lytton Strachey