From the Book - First edition.
Part 1: Princess Victoria : "Poor little victory". The birth of "pocket Hercules" ; The death of a father ; The lonely, naughty princess ; An impossible, strange madness ; "Awful scenes in the house"
Part 2: The teenage queen. Becoming queen: "I am very young" ; The coronation: "a dream out of the Arabian nights" ; Learning to rule ; A scandal in the palace
Part 3: Albert : the man some called king. Virago in love ; The bride : "I never, never spent such an evening" ; Only the husband, not the master ; The palace intruders ; King to all intents : "like a vulture into his prey" ; Perfect, awful, spotless prosperity ; Annus mirabilis : the revolutionary year ; What Albert did : the Great Exhibition of 1851 ; The Crimea : 'this unsatisfactory war' ; Royal parents and the dragon of dissatisfaction
Part 4: The widow of Windsor. "There is no one to call me Victoria now" ; "The whole house seems like Pompeii" ; Resuscitating the widow at Windsor ; The queen's stallion ; The faery queen awakes
Part 5: Regina imperatrix. Enough to kill any man ; Two ironclads colliding : the queen and Mr. Gladstone ; The monarch in a bonnet ; The "poor Munshi" ; The diamond empire ; The end of the Victorian Age : "the streets were indeed a strange sight."
From the Book - Random House Trade paperback edition.
The birth of "pocket Hercules"
The lonely, naughty princess
An impossible, strange madness
"Awful scenes in the house"
Becoming queen: "I am very young"
The coronation: "a dream out of the Arabian nights"
The bride: "I never, never spent such an evening"
Only the husband, not the master
King to all intents: "like a vulture into his prey"
Perfect, awful, spotless prosperity
Annus Mirabilis: the revolutionary year
What Albert did: the Great Exhibition of 1851
The Crimea: 'This unsatisfactory war'
Royal parents and the dragon of dissatisfaction
"There is no one to call me Victoria now"
"The whole house seems like Pompeii."
Resuscitating the Widow of Windsor
Two ironclads colliding: the queen and Mr. Gladstone
The end of the Victorian Age : "The streets were indeed a strange sight."
