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Young Victoria

Young Victoria - Imogen Stubbs,  Anna Massey,  Christopher Cazenove

bookshelves: winter-20102011, victoriana, play-dramatisation, published-2001

Read from January 17 to 21, 2011

 

 blurb - Juliet Ace's drama serial, based on the letters and diaries of the young Queen Victoria, presents a portrait of her younger life and the happy years of her marriage, showing some of the remarkable and long-lasting achievements of this extraordinary queen. Starring Imogen Stubbs, Anna Massey, Adrian Lukis and Christopher Cazenove.

 

Born in 1819, Victoria was the daughter of Edward, Duke of Kent. Left fatherless at the age of eight months, her early years were difficult, brought up by her German mother in an atmosphere of family feuds and jealousy. Succeeding to the throne at 18, however, she began a triumphant reign.