Becoming Queen Victoria : the tragic death of Princess Charlotte and the unexpected rise of Britain's greatest monarch / Kate Williams.

By: Williams, Kate, 1974-Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Ballantine Books, [2010]Edition: 1st U.S. edDescription: xiv, 448 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cmISBN: 9780345461957 (hardcover : acidfree paper); 0345461959 (hardcover : acidfree paper)Uniform titles: Becoming queen Subject(s): Princesses -- Great Britain -- BiographyDDC classification: 941.081
Contents:
PART ONE: 1796-1817 Charlotte: The Queen Who Never Was -- "The Most Distressing Feelings of My Heart" -- "I Find Him Very Fat, and Nothing as Handsome as His Portrait" -- "An Immense Girl" -- "Fleas are the Only Enemies HRH Has" -- The Mistress of Montague House -- Forming the Character of a Young Princess -- Sex, Lies, and Scandals -- Prince Regent -- The Nunnery --"Thinking that She has a Will of Her Own" -- Violent Orange Attacks --The Rising Sun --"The Soldiers Will Be Ordered Out" -- A Little Turquoise Heart -- The Black Sheep -- "Everything I Could Wish & Desire Collected in One" -- Mr. and Mrs. Coburg -- "Some Strange, Awkward Symptoms" -- Interlude 1817-20 Drunken Dukes -- "The Dregs of Their Dull Race" -- "As Plump as a Partridge" -- Alexandrina Victoria -- PART TWO: 1820-37 Little Victoria -- An Idol in Kensington Palace -- "The Nation's Hope" -- Imperial Robes -- Living in a Very Simple Manner -- "I Was Greatly Pleased" -- Educating a Princess -- Sickly Uncle King -- Charlotte the Queen? -- "The Queen Does Nothing but Embroider Flowers" -- "How Very Old" -- "When Nobody Wishes to Change and Nobody Wants to Give In" -- Victoria on Tour -- Victoria's Whims -- Crowds of Princes -- "I Cannot Expect to Live Very Long" -- "It May All Be Over at Any Moment" -- PART THREE: 1837-41 The Young Queen -- "Just the Sort of Life I Like" -- "He is of the Greatest Use to Me" -- Scandal -- A Way of Settling It -- Passing like a Dream -- "Monsters!" -- "An Everlasting Impression" -- "Children Seem to Literally Be Raining Down from Heaven" -- "What a Hard Task It Is for Us Women".
Summary: From the acclaimed author of "England's Mistress" comes a smart, gripping account of the rise to the throne and the early life of Queen Victoria, and the tragic, little-known story of Princess Charlotte, the queen who never was.
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Originally published as: Becoming queen. London : Hutchinson, 2008.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [377]-429) and index.

PART ONE: 1796-1817 Charlotte: The Queen Who Never Was -- "The Most Distressing Feelings of My Heart" -- "I Find Him Very Fat, and Nothing as Handsome as His Portrait" -- "An Immense Girl" -- "Fleas are the Only Enemies HRH Has" -- The Mistress of Montague House -- Forming the Character of a Young Princess -- Sex, Lies, and Scandals -- Prince Regent -- The Nunnery --"Thinking that She has a Will of Her Own" -- Violent Orange Attacks --The Rising Sun --"The Soldiers Will Be Ordered Out" -- A Little Turquoise Heart -- The Black Sheep -- "Everything I Could Wish & Desire Collected in One" -- Mr. and Mrs. Coburg -- "Some Strange, Awkward Symptoms" -- Interlude 1817-20 Drunken Dukes -- "The Dregs of Their Dull Race" -- "As Plump as a Partridge" -- Alexandrina Victoria -- PART TWO: 1820-37 Little Victoria -- An Idol in Kensington Palace -- "The Nation's Hope" -- Imperial Robes -- Living in a Very Simple Manner -- "I Was Greatly Pleased" -- Educating a Princess -- Sickly Uncle King -- Charlotte the Queen? -- "The Queen Does Nothing but Embroider Flowers" -- "How Very Old" -- "When Nobody Wishes to Change and Nobody Wants to Give In" -- Victoria on Tour -- Victoria's Whims -- Crowds of Princes -- "I Cannot Expect to Live Very Long" -- "It May All Be Over at Any Moment" -- PART THREE: 1837-41 The Young Queen -- "Just the Sort of Life I Like" -- "He is of the Greatest Use to Me" -- Scandal -- A Way of Settling It -- Passing like a Dream -- "Monsters!" -- "An Everlasting Impression" -- "Children Seem to Literally Be Raining Down from Heaven" -- "What a Hard Task It Is for Us Women".

From the acclaimed author of "England's Mistress" comes a smart, gripping account of the rise to the throne and the early life of Queen Victoria, and the tragic, little-known story of Princess Charlotte, the queen who never was.

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