Victoria - Daisy Goodwin
Category: Historical Fiction
Narrator: Anna Wilson-Jones
Tags: Historical Fiction
12 hours 21 min runtime approx. Unabridged Recording, In 1837, less than a month after her eighteenth birthday, Alexandrina Victoria sheltered, small in stature, and female became Queen of Great Britain and Ireland. Many thought it was preposterous: Alexandrina Drina to her family had always been tightly controlled by her mother and her household, and was surely too unprepossessing to hold the throne. Yet from the moment William IV died, the young Queen startled everyone: abandoning her hated first name in favor of Victoria; insisting, for the first time in her life, on sleeping in a room apart from her mother; resolute about meeting with her ministers alone., One of those ministers, Lord Melbourne, became Victorias private secretary. Perhaps he might have become more than that, except everyone argued she was destined to marry her cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. But Victoria had met Albert as a child and found him stiff and critical: surely the last man she would wa
