From the Book - First edition.
The birth of "pocket Hercules"
The lonely, naughty princess
An impossible, strange madness
"Awful scenes in the house"
Becoming queen: "I shall not fail"
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: "everything passes so quickly!"
"Who will call me Victoria now?"
"The whole house seems like Pompeii."
Resuscitating the widow at Windsor
Two ironclads colliding: the queen and Mr. Gladstone
The end of the Victorian Age - "The streets were indeed a strange sight."
