Queen Victoria and her Prime Ministers
a personal history
$43.68
- Paperback
640 pages
- Release Date
12 August 2025
Summary
Victoria’s Verdict: The Queen and Her Ten Prime Ministers
In Queen Victoria and Her Prime Ministers, Anne Somerset masterfully traces Victoria’s political evolution, from headstrong teenager to seasoned octogenarian. This book demonstrates her passionate involvement in state affairs and casts fresh light on her relationships with her ten prime ministers.
Victoria herself acknowledged that when it came to ‘likes and dislikes’ of her prime ministers, ‘she had them ver…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780008106256 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0008106258 |
| Author: | Anne Somerset |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Imprint: | William Collins |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 640 |
| Release Date: | 12 August 2025 |
| Weight: | 580g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 52mm |
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Critics Review
EARLY PRAISE FOR QUEEN VICTORIA AND HER PRIME MINISTERS:
‘Fascinating… an exhilaratingly impressive account’
Daily Telegraph, *****
‘Impressively well-researched’
The Times
‘Magnificent, disturbing and innovative… This wonderful book is the result of immense research in ministers’ private papers as well as in the royal and national archives’
Spectator
‘This book is a moving, meticulous and original explosion of the constitutional myths we’ve inherited’
Literary Review
‘The author skilfully unpicks the human dynamic that coloured many political decisions, a tale not without resonance today’
Country Life
About The Author
Anne Somerset
Anne Somerset was born in 1955 and read History at King’s College, London. Her first book, ‘The Life and Times of William IV’, was published in 1980. This was followed in 1984 by the bestselling ‘Ladies-in-Waiting: From the Tudors to the Present Day’, an acclaimed biography of Elizabeth I in 1991, and ‘Unnatural Murder: Poison in the Court of James I: The Overbury Murder’ in 1998. Her most recent work is ‘The Affair of the Poisons: Murder, Infanticide and Satanism at the Court of Louis XIV’.
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