Queen Victoria
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This is an odd book: interesting, informative, intelligent, but still decidedly odd. It is a history of the Victorian era…
Queen Victoria, by Matthew Dennison - review
When Prince Albert died in 1861, aged 42, Queen Victoria, after briefly losing the use of her legs, ordered that…
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