I, Victoria

Name: I, Victoria
Rating: 2.5 (5 reviews)

by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

First published 1994

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In the last troubled year of her life, Queen Victoria looks back over a childhood spent under close supervision at Kensington Palace and the extraordinary change that followed her accession to the throne. The lonely girl who once waited for freedom becomes the centre of a monarchy that must adapt to industrial growth, political reform and an expanding public culture.

Told as Victoria's own retrospective account, the novel gives particular weight to her marriage, family life and the emotional dependence that shaped her reign. Public ceremony and constitutional duty are set beside grief, temper, affection and the restrictions of royal expectation, turning a famous reign into an intimate fictional autobiography of the woman behind the crown.