Get Your Copy Victoria Victorious: The Story Of Queen Victoria (Queens Of England, #3) Authored By Jean Plaidy Available In Print

gruelling than pleasurable So far I feel like there are two different Victorias: one prewedding and another postwedding, I enjoyed the prewedding Victoria very much, she was smart and witty, The postwedding one is boring and almost weak, always belittling herself in favour of her husband,
Her reaction to her pregnancies make me cringe everytime! Surely she knew how pregnancies came about!
As for the book itself, I'm finding it a bit difficult and maybe even desorganized.
There's little indication of the year the chapters, or even the events in each chapter, refer too and that makes it hard to form a chronological point of view of things, which I think would be helpful in understanding the historical and political parts of the book.


After finishing the book my opinion remains the same, Victoria was not what i was expecting, she was not as strong as i thought and she actually relied on men a lot, not only her husband but her ministers.

As for the book, it was poorly organized and very confusing,
I'm giving it two because I do like history and I learned a few things, otherwise it would be one star!
I'm not sure I'll be giving the author another chance!
It is very rare to find a writer who can fully engage the reader so that he/she feels that they are witness to a series of events as they are unfolding.
Here Jean Plaidy tells a story of Queen Victoria's life in Victoria's own voice, Plaidy does it with such unerring skill that one can't help but wonder if Victoria herself had dictated this book to Plaidy,

Here we are given access to the full sweep of Victoria's life, from her birth ingranddaughter to George III, her unhappy childhood with a greedy, selfish and controlling mother, her ascension to the throne in, her marriage to her beloved Albert in February, herchildren, the death of Albert inwhich left Victoria bereft for the rest of her life, and the growth of Britain and her Empire during Victoria's long reign.
Reading this book was a delightful and enlightening experience, If only all history could be explained to students in such a compelling and personal way as Plaidy has done so well here, perhaps more of them would be more eager to study it.
Jean Plaidy "Victoria Victorious""

Токущо я дочетох,
И като ставим настрана удоволствието от самия факт, че за пръв път от месеци насам чета книга, която ще превеждам, книгата е чудесна. Отначало ми тръгна малко трудно, но това може би се дължеше донякъде и на факта, че четох първите й страници в сканиран вид, след като ги получих за пробен превод. След като ги "преодолях", четенето потръгна.
Авторката има много приятен стил, "спъвах" се само малко в началото, защото на моменти не ми беше ясно дали Виктория /от чието име се разказва историята/ разказва за неща, на които е била съвременница, или преразказва такива, които са й били разказани. След това обаче историята ме увлече. Много. Казах "приятен стил", но това описание не е достатъчно и може би дори звучи малко снизходително. А книгата ни наймалко не заслужава снизходително отношение. Тъкмо напротив това е добре написана, увлекателна книга, която дава достатъчно сведения за събитията през погледа на Виктория, без по мое мнение да е излишно многословна.
Едно от найхубавите неща в тази книга е, че тя показва Виктория не само като кралица. Историята ни "превежда" през целия й живот, през всички негови периоди и аспекти детство, юношество, ранна младост, зряла възраст почти до деня на смъртта й. И всеки неин образ е живо представен детето, което от ранна възраст знае, че един ден ще седне на трона, потисканото от майка си момиче, което очаква осемнайсетия си рожден ден като някаква едва ли не вълшебна дата, която найсетне ще го освободи от властната майка влюбената предана съпруга майката. И още, и още. Не знам колко време е писана книгата, но авторката е успяла чудесно и убедително да предаде всички тези "образи" на Виктория.
Хаеса ми и това, че е отделено много място на описанието на политиката. Изненадах се, че ми беше толкова интересно, но е факт. Дори това беше описано увлекателно.
За голямата любов между Виктория и Албърт е писано и говорено много, така че това не ме учуди особено. Изненада ме друго през цялото време се питах как е възможно двама толкова различни души да се обичат толкова много Да не говорим, че и по принцип браковете по любов между кралски особи са били толкова редки Но е факт, че нещата са стояли именно така.
Не знам защо винаги съм смятала, че кралица Виктория е била сдържана и студена жена. Тази книга обаче ми показа една друга жена чувствителна, емоционална, способна на голяма обич и привързаност. Почувствах я близка, изпитах топлота към нея. И си дадох сметка колко малко съм знаела за нея всъщност.
Почти накрая ми се иска да кажа нещо и за авторката. В бележката накрая с изненада открих, че е изключително продуктивна написала е почти двеста романа. Друго интересно откритие беше, че е писала под няколко псевдонима /името, което стои върху корицата на тази книга, също е псевдоним/ и че поне един от тях Виктория Холт ми е известен.
И съвсем накрая не мога да се въздържа от сравнение с моята любима Филипа Грегъри, чиито книги превеждах години наред. Обичам и винаги ще обичам Филипа, но тази книга ми хареса повече от някои нейни. Може би и защото разказва за много покъсна епоха и ме "срещна" отблизо с исторически личности, за които знаех твърде малко.
Е, "запознах" се с Виктория. От утре започвам превода и съм сигурна, че ми предстоят няколко изключително приятни месеца Interesting woman. Victoria Victorious / Jean Plaidy
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This is a fictional biography of Queen Victoria, She had an unhappy childhood, but she married someone she loved Albert, they hadchildren, who all lived,

This is a long book, Its only the second book Ive read on Queen Victoria, the first was only a month ago, and also written by Plaidy, but that one only included her childhood there are sequels to that, so I will continue, but with larger gaps in between.
Most of what Ive read about British royalty was from the Tudors and earlier on, soyears earlier, Some differences that happened in between included Royals being able to choose their spouses, and I found it interesting how much travel they did to see each other after Victorias children moved away to other countries.
England now also had a Prime Minister, so decisions were not made by the monarchy, though they were discussed between the PM and the monarchy,

It was interesting to learn about Queen Victoria, as well as the different world that England had become overyears, Im not sure, historically, how her husband, Albert, is regarded, but I was not a big fan, given how hes described in this book, Victoria loved him, but I didnt like him much, I found her family life both as a child, and as an adult more interesting than the politics in the book, I just couldn't get into this book, mostly there is a lot of exposition in explaining who is who or what politics are happening, the characters are u nlikeable and as it is in victoria's voice, there is no development of the other characters, compared to the current television series, there is no charm here, Delightful read

A good narration ofyears of British monarchical history, The friendship and conflicts between the crown and the prime ministers were nicely presented,
I really enjoyed the first part about young Victoria and ended up powering through the last part just to get done, Though I've never found Jean Plaidy's/Victoria Holt's/other aliases' writings very poignant or deep, one can not come to the end of apage novel and be unmoved.
This was the story of Queen Victoria from early childhood until just weeks before her death atand, while some sentiments may have been somewhat construed, it read much like the filling out of a detailed timeline, leading me to believe she obtained much of her information from writings from the Queen.
The story was a little unbalanced as the firstyears of her life were told inpages and the lastwere spelled out in just over,

I somewhat liked the Young Victoria of the novel's early chapters, She was lighthearted and friendly yet everything was always so peachy with everyone she dealt with that I kept waiting for the shoe to drop, There were lots of sensitive crying men who doted on her enter construes, That didn't seem super believable,

I found myself wishing there would have been a timeline included or dated chapters, It was difficult to imagine things happening in the timeline of the rest of history without stopping to look things up,

Once Victoria and Albert were married, I found that I began liking her less and less as time went on, I can't imagine speaking so meanly about my children, Even though I definitely do put my husband before my children and they know that relationship is most important, I could never say the things or treat my child the way they did toward Bertie.
It's no wonder he struggled as an adult

and I was happy to read he was so free and loving with his own children, I loved it when she said, "Remember your childhood!" and he said, "Oh yes, Mama, I do remember it well, "

I didn't care much for Albert throughout the book and found it irritating when Victoria would say he could do no wrongespecially in the case of Bertie's upbringing where he is clearly overbearing and mean.
She mentions at the end that she maybe saw him as too angelicbut then condemns herself for thinking badly of her dearly departed, I think she battled with being proper as opposed to being real,

Once Albert passed away, I had a difficult time liking her, It's not that I didn't want to be sympathetic but she seems to be hypocritical and pampered, I was annoyed that she even mentioned Alexandra didn't seek her permission for her parents to visit her on her sick bed, I was frustrated that she continued to blame Bertie for Albert's death and that she made Beatrice feel guilty if she wanted to venture away from home, She seemed very childish to me and it was difficult to respect her,

Though I think I probably found more negatives than positives, not all was bad, I do think she was a loyal friend and a loving mother, in her own way, She was loyal to her people and seemed genuinely affected when she'd fallen out of favor as she desired to be in their good graces, I loved that she employed servants from other cultures and learned from them, I was also applauding her left and right for standing up to an overbearing mother, Good for her.

One thing I learned from the book was the practice the Germans had of purposefully scarring one another's faces in Mensur, Ew.

All in all, I'm glad I read the book, I'll keep it in my collection as I'm sure I'll want to read it again in the future, .