Victoria of England

You call me the little Queen, she told her uncle the King of the Belgians; my body is little, but my heart is not.Edith Sitwell’s endearing portrait of the young Victoria chronicles her unlikely ascension to the spanning the succession crisis of King George III, her enduring love and marriage to Prince Albert, and her strength and power in a male dominated world.Weaving in Victoria’s personal letters and diaries, Sitwell breathes life into the Queen’s relationships with her family and her court. A rich exploration of Victoria’s reign and a social document of Victorian Britain, Victoria of England vividly illustrates the life of the iconic monarch with insight and emotion.