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Kate Williams

Becoming Queen Victoria

The Unexpected Rise of Britain's Greatest Monarch

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The perfect companion to the PBS Masterpiece series Victoria • A gripping account of Queen Victoria's rise and early years in power from CNN's official royal historian Kate Williams has perfected the art of historical biography. Her pacy writing is underpinned by the most impeccable scholarship.-Alison Weir In 1819, a girl was born to the fourth son of King George III. No one could have expected such an unassuming, overprotected girl to be an effective ruler-yet Queen Victoria would become one of the most powerful monarchs in history. Writing with novelistic flair and historical precision, Kate Williams reveals… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-345-47239-7
  • EAN: 9780345472397
  • Produktnummer: 20005735
  • Verlag: Random House N.Y.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
  • Seitenangabe: 480 S.
  • Abbildungen: Farb. Abb.

Über den Autor


Kate Williams studied for her B.A. at Oxford University and went on to earn an M.A. from the University of London and a D.Phil. in history from Oxford. A lecturer and TV consultant in addition to being CNN's royal historian, she has hosted several documentaries on British television and appears regularly on both American and British networks. Williams is the New York Times bestselling author of three biographies-Ambition and Desire: The Dangerous Life of Josephine Bonaparte, England's Mistress: The Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton, and Becoming Queen Victoria: The Unexpected Rise of Britain's Greatest Monarch-as well as a novel, The Pleasures of Men. Her articles and essays have been published in a wide range of books and journals. Kate Williams lives in London.

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