An Audience with Queen Victoria: The Royal Opinion on 30 Famous Victorians [Paperback]

ONE of Britains most famous and longest serving rulers, Queen Victoria saw widespread change across her empire. During her sixty-three-year reign, in which she became one of the most powerful and influential people in the world, Victoria met everyone from Florence Nightingale to Buffalo Bill, as well as royalty from around the world with whom she exchanged truly unique gifts.After meeting the exalted monarch her subjects often recorded their impressions of her, sometimes favourable and sometimes not, and she wasnt shy with her opinion either. The records range from her less than enamoured assessment of Greatest Showman P.T. Barnum and her opinions about Jack the Ripper, to how much she enjoyed Jane Eyre and the affection she held for her family. An Audience with Queen Victoria examines the meetings and letters exchanged between the Queen and a veritable whos who of her time. Through brand-new archival research, newspapers and interviews with descendants, sit right alongside Victoria and, for the first time, experience queenship from her perspective.A unique insight into one of the world's most famous monarch's personal opinions and feelings on the highest-profile figures of the dayIAN LLOYD has spent twenty years as a full-time writer and photographer, specialising in the British Royal Family. He has had two books in the Sunday Times bestseller list (both 2011) and writes regular features for the Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, Hello Magazine and Majesty Magazine. Ian is also the Royal Correspondent for The Sunday Post and a regular royal pundit on Sky News, BBC News and BBC Radio 5 Live. He lives in Oxford.