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Title Page
Dedication
ILLUSTRATIONS
AUTHOR’S NOTE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
VICTORIA’S FAMILY TREE
QUEEN VICTORIA’S PRIME MINISTERS
PART ONE 1819–1861
1 THE FAMILY
2 THE PARENTS
3 THE CHILD
4 CONROY
5 PROGRESSES
6 UNCLES
7 THE YOUNG QUEEN
8 MELBOURNE
9 CORONATION
10 THE HASTINGS AFFAIR
11 ‘A PLEASANT LIFE’
12 ‘A HEADSTRONG GIRL’
13 GERMAN COUSINS
14 PRINCE ALBERT
15 THE BRIDEGROOM
16 HONEYMOON
17 ROBERT PEEL
18 THE PRINCE AND THE HOUSEHOLD
19 ROYAL QUARRELS
20 OSBORNE
21 TRAVELLING
22 BALMORAL
23 THE PRINCE OF WALES
24 PALMERSTON
25 CHARTISTS
26 ‘PAM IS OUT’
27 THE GREAT EXHIBITION
28 ‘SCENES’
29 CRIMEAN WAR
30 NAPOLEON III
31 THE PRINCESS ROYAL
32 INDIAN MUTINY
33 THE GERMAN GRANDSON
34 DEATH OF THE DUCHESS
35 THE DISAPPOINTING HEIR
36 DEATH OF THE PRINCE
PART TWO 1861–1901
37 THE GRIEVING WIDOW
38 SEANCES AND SERVICES
39 PRINCESS ALEXANDRA
40 THE RECLUSE
41 DISRAELI
42 JOHN BROWN
43 ‘THE ROYALTY QUESTION’
44 ‘THE PRINCELY PAUPER’
45 TYPHOID FEVER
46 MAIDS-OF-HONOUR
47 SECRETARIES AND MINISTERS
48 REGINA ET IMPERATRIX
49 ‘THE HALF-MAD FIREBRAND’
50 GOLDEN JUBILEE
51 DIE ENGLÄNDERIN
52 THE DAUGHTERS
53 THE SONS
54 THE GRANDCHILDREN
55 WOULD-BE ASSASSINS
56 HOLIDAYS ABROAD
57 DEATH OF BROWN
58 THE MUNSHI
59 DIAMOND JUBILEE
60 LIFE AT COURT
61 DINNER PARTIES
62 BOOKS
63 BOOKMEN
64 FAILING HEALTH
65 DEATH
66 FUNERAL AND BURIAL
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