Victoria / Victoria (Spanish Edition) - Daisy Goodwin

La novela que recrea la apasionante juventud de la reina Victoria de Inglaterra, por la creadora de la serie televisiva Victoria.

En 1837, con apenas 18 aos, Victoria se despierta una maana para descubrir que su to ha muerto y ella va a convertirse en reina de la nacin ms poderosa del planeta. Pero lograr ser una monarca de pleno derecho o solo una marioneta en manos de familiares intrigantes y ambiciosos polticos? Podr imponerse en un mundo de hombres que creen que las mujeres son demasiado inestables para reinar?

Todos pretenden casarla con su primo, el prncipe Alberto, pero Victoria no tiene ninguna intencin de acceder a un matrimonio de conveniencia. Prefiere gobernar sola y disfrutar de la compaa del primer ministro, el brillante Lord Melbourne, el nico que la hace rer y que cree que de verdad llegar a ser una gran reina. Aunque la visita del prncipe Alberto est en marcha, ella ya ha decidido que es aburrido e insoportable porque as lo recuerda de su infancia. Despus de todo la reina sabe lo quiere... O quiz an no.

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER

Drawing on Queen Victoria's diaries, which she first started reading when she was a student at Cambridge University, Daisy Goodwin--creator and writer of the new PBS Masterpiece drama Victoria and author of the bestselling novels The American Heiress and The Fortune Hunter--brings the young nineteenth-century monarch, who would go on to reign for 63 years, richly to life in this magnificent novel.

Early one morning, less than a month after her eighteenth birthday, Alexandrina Victoria is roused from bed with the news that her uncle William IV has died and she is now Queen of England. The men who run the country have doubts about whether this sheltered young woman, who stands less than five feet tall, can rule the greatest nation in the world.

Despite her age, however, the young queen is no puppet. She has very definite ideas about the kind of queen she wants to be, and the first thing is to choose her name.

"I do not like the name Alexandrina," she proclaims. "From now on I wish to be known only by my second name, Victoria."

Next, people say she must choose a husband. Everyone keeps telling her she's destined to marry her first cousin, Prince Albert, but Victoria found him dull and priggish when they met three years ago. She is quite happy being queen with the help of her prime minister, Lord Melbourne, who may be old enough to be her father but is the first person to take her seriously.

On June 19th, 1837, she was a teenager. On June 20th, 1837, she was a queen. Daisy Goodwin's impeccably researched and vividly imagined new book brings readers Queen Victoria as they have never seen her before.