![]() It is miles away from anything, and quite unsuitable as a royal residence.…I think I shall look over Buckingham House. Brushing them off like gnats, she announces, “For a start, I do not intend to stay here at Kensington. When the death of Victoria’s uncle, His Majesty William IV, puts her on the throne of England one month after her 18th birthday, she is legally in charge and ready to seize the reins of power, disappointing her mother and her adviser Sir John Conroy, who were counting on controlling her. ![]() Goodwin ( The American Heiress, 2015, etc.) wrote this novel imagining the adolescence of the woman whose rule defined most of the 19th century just as her television script of the same story went into production in England in her acknowledgments she thanks the actors and her daughter, a "teenage queen" herself. The teenage Queen Victoria, raging against her mother, crushing on her prime minister, and not impressed by her loser cousin Albert. ![]()
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