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'I delight in this work', wrote the young Victoria shortly after she became Queen. 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. The 'little Queen', who succeeded to the throne a month after her eighteenth birthday, was greeted by a unanimous chorus of praise and admiration. 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. ( as Alison Plowden puts it in her volume The Young Victoria, 1981 ). 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. She lived all her life and died, not long before Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. She was an engaging creature, high-spirited and eager to be 'amused'.

The Young Victoria by Alison Plowden