Her bestselling books include: The House of Tudor, The Young Elizabeth, Lady Jane Grey and Danger to Elizabeth, all of which are available from The History Press. Alison Plowden was one of the most successful and popular historians of British history. She met and married Albert, marking the end of her childhood and the beginning of a glorious legend.

She embraced the independence of her position and often forced her will on those around her. In my search for more research-based info about Queen Victoria after Daisy Goodwin's novel and TV series, I've come upon this book, which goes further into her mother (Marie Louise Victoire) and father's (Edward, the Duke of Kent) lives before her birth, childhood, adulthood, and just barely after her. The 'little Queen', who succeeded to the throne a month after her eighteenth birthday, was greeted by a unanimous chorus of praise and admiration. The Young Victoria by Alison Plowden is a free NetGalley ebook that I read in early July. Though her uncle William IV was anxious to bring her into Court circles, her German mother and the calculating John Conroy were equally determined that she should remain under their control. Elizabeth became a heroine of the Protestants and apopular figure.

Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. The Young Victoria - Ebook written by Alison Plowden. Fatherless from the age of eight months, she was brought up at Kensington Palace in an atmosphere thick with family feuds, backbiting and jealousy - the focus of conflicting ambitions. Plowden portrays the teenageElizabeth as a threat to Mary, who kept the former a prisoner in the Tower of London but was unable to findhard evidence of treason before the Privy Council Court. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read The Young Victoria. She was an engaging creature, high-spirited and eager to be 'amused'. 'I delight in this work', wrote the young Victoria shortly after she became Queen.