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 am very young"
The coronation: "a dream out of the Arabian nights"
The bride: "I never, never spent such an evening"
Only the husband, and 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 at Windsor
"Two ironclads colliding": the queen and Mr. Gladstone
The end of the Victorian Age: "The streets were indeed a strange sight."
