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is thend book in Plaidy's Queen Victoria series, written some time ago, but new to me.
Having already been primed by the Masterpiece Theatre version of "Victoria" a couple of years ago, I had a good idea of the people and events in advance of the reading, but I could also tell that Ms Plaidy had drawn from Queen Victoria's diaries, which she kept almost her entire life, so there was a lot that did feel we were getting the real woman's real thoughts and feelings.
Of course, it didn't hurt that I could picture Rufus Sewell as Lord M throughout my reading of this book! I will be reading therd book in the series at some point have a couple other books piled up, waiting to be read, but if you enjoy historical fiction, particularly about Queen Victoria or the Victorian era, and are prepared to realize that fiction about real people isn't sometimes as exciting as fiction about madeup people because then the author is able to push the storyline further, then you will probably enjoy this book./
Mlle Alice, pouvezvous nous raconter votre rencontre avec The Queen and Lord M,
"J'ai une passion pour cette reine et pour la vie des grands personnages historiques en général.
Après avoir apprécié le premier tome de cette saga romancée, il était temps que je me lance enfin dans celuici.
"
Ditesnous en un peu plus sur son histoire, . .
"Ce second opus se concentre sur l'accession au trône de Victoria et sur sa relation particulière avec son premier ministre d'alors, Lord Melbourne.
"
Mais que s'estil exactement passé entre vous
"Le premier tome nous avait agréablement guidé à travers les méandres qui conduisirent la jeune et déterminée Victoria jusqu'au trône d'Angleterre.
C'était un début prometteur et je fus ravie de retrouver la jeune Reine et de découvrir avec elle les avantages de sa nouvelle position mais également ses difficultés et ses pièges.
Cependant, si l'auteur nous l'avait présentée jusqu'ici comme une jeune femme intelligente et ne se laissant pas dicter sa conduite, son opinion semble avoir changé dans la suite de ce roman.
Même s'il est vrai que Victoria s'est en quelque sorte éprise de son premier ministre et s'est laissée entièrement guider par lui, ici elle apparait telle une sombre idiote et Lord Melbourne comme un incompétent cynique.
Non seulement j'ai trouvé les traits un peu exagérés mais comme le livre entier n'est qu'une longue répétition de leurs entrevues, ça finit par tourner à la caricature.
Un peu décevant donc, "
Et comment cela s'estil fini
"L'histoire s'interrompt juste après le mariage d'Albert et Victoria et ouvre enfin de nouvelles perspectives.
Malgré les quelques bémols évoqués, je reste passionnée par la vie de cette souveraine que ces romans rendent accessible et la lecture demeure agréable.
J'ai donc hâte de me plonger dans le tome suivant, "
sitelink hautetfor This depicts how young and unprepared Queen Victoria was when she ascended to the throne at the age of.
Being sheltered her whole life in addition to her frank emotions and unwavering loyalty allowed her to be inadvertently put into scandal within a year of her coronation.
Overall I enjoyed the book but as others have said the amount of times it was mentioned that Lord M had tears in his eyes was absolutely ridiculous and annoying.
I got the point after two mentions, No need to hammer it home, dear author,
I can see the wisdom of reworking this series of four books into one Victoria Victorious as there is repetition in the first book and this one.
If only Plaidy had been as clear and repetitious as to who's who in this series ex, all of a sudden in this book Cumberland of thest book is now called Uncle Earnest as she was about telling how certain characters felt about certain things.
.
I will continue with the series because I really am enjoying it, The above complaints aren't a huge deal to me, The second in Plaidys four book series on Victoria, Now Queen, this book covers the first few years of her reign and her close relationship with Lord Melbourne.
I really enjoyed Plaidys take on a young, but earnest young Queen who wants to be a good ruler, but is feeling her power after years of being under the total control of her mother and “that Man”.
Written from her perspective, the reader can understand Victorias motives even as they shake their heads at the mistakes of a naïve, but goodhearted young woman.
Off to book three and lots of cartoon hearts over Dearest Albert!
They really were in love but knew they couldn't be together, So well done and I enjoyed learning more about Lord M's backstory and how this book was more historically accurate than the TV series.
Very excited to read therd book about what happens with Victoria's marriage to Prince Albert and how she wrote Lord M's final years.
I'm not sure if it's the author's writing style that I find annoying or if it's the character of Queen Victoria.
I will probably try one of her books in a different series to find out, Queen Victoria matured a bit in this book, I have to read the next one, which will include her marriage to Prince Albert of Germany, Klidně bych všechno více vyprávěla jako příběh, takhle je to spíše popisné.
Ale upřímně nevadí, i tak to miluju, Lord M's eyes are always tearfilled in this book, it gets to be a bit much! Other than that strangeness, this is a pretty good novelization of the first few years of Queen Victoria's reign, and pretty historically accurate as far as I know.
This book in Queen Victoria series captures the period of young princess Victoria's turbulent relationship with her mother and a plotting adviser of hers who tried his best to obtain a regency in favour of her mother, Victoria's coming of age and ultimate step in to the throne at the tender age of, her struggle to command and lead a country where she had to order around men who were his seniors in age and experience, and her finally finding both her peace and love in the strength of her cousin, Prince Albert, who would become her husband.
The book gives a good insight into the life and character of young Victoria, both as a princess and later as queen.
It is very informative. However, it was more biographic than a story, Since I mistakenly expected a story, I was disappointed, As second book in series this shows really how victoria relied on her prime ministor when she was queen as she had really seperated from her mother as resented her from how she was treated when younger.
Victorian era yes not the most exciting like tudor times but still interesting, good book
I found this pretty dull, It was OK toward the beginning, but by the end, I was ready to be done with it.
In fact, I skipped over aboutpages to get to the last three chapters, My biggest complaint is that she skips years without telling you and alludes to things without clarifying, I have to go to Wikipedia quite often, Also, she doesn't translate the foreign statements, I enjoy the challenge of translating, but I would think most people would not, This book does a great job at showing how young and unprepared Queen Victoria was when she ascended to the throne at the age of.
Being sheltered her whole life in addition to her frank emotions and unwavering loyalty allowed her to be inadvertently put into scandal within a year of her coronation.
There is no true villain here, unless you count "That Man", and who couldn't Several times I found myself going, "You silly girl! The people won't like that!"
I'm very excited to read the next part in the series, which deal with her beloved Prince Consort.
She was so young and innocent, . . Sometimes I wanted to just embrace her and her insecurities others instead I just wanted to scream silly girl what do you think you're doing
Nice book.
Me encanta la historia, siempre lo he dicho, fue por eso que fijé mi atención en este libro, el cual me vendieron a muy buen precio en una feria del libro usado.
Es muy difícil encontrar por internet datosfieles y los libros de historia no te "insertan" dentro de la historia, he ahí la ventaja de las novelas históricas.
Como este libro está basado en la vida de un personaje real es muy difícil que la autora pueda extender su imaginación, por lo que no fue una graaan trama visto de ese punto, Jean Plaidy fue muy fiel a los hechos, incluyendo fechas exactas y fragmentos de documentos, por lo que si leen el libro no se van a encontrar con un perfecto romance.
Reseña completa: sitelink blogspot . I wasn't particularly impressed by this, I was still waiting for it to get going when it ended, I found the writing quite weak, with the same few motifs being reiterated over and over again,.stars
This is Plaidys second book about Queen Victoria, This book opens when Victoria learns she is to be queen atyears old, Her first few years
as queen are very much directed by the Prime Minister at the time, Lord Melbourne.
She becomes very close to him, She has a couple of scandals along the way and things look bad to the public with her reaction when she almost loses him as Prime Minister.
The book ends just as she marries,
This was good, By now Ive read a bit more about Victoria than I had when I read Plaidys first book about her.
But this one had much more detail about her relationship with the P, M. Wish she hadnt relied solely on Melbournes advice, but this is what really happened, I enjoyed reading for the first time about Queen Victoria but I had difficulty with the writing style.
Sooooo boring. Melbourne was such a crybaby and Victoria had no personality whatsoever,
What a disappointment. This sequel of "The Captive of Kensington Palace" depicts the life of the newly titled Queen Victoria from her accession until her marriage with Prince Albert.
Similarly to its predecessor, this book was very very hard to put down, Plaidy describes the highs of Victoria's early reign, under the guidance of Prime Minister Lord Melbourne and the lows which resulted from several scandals within the Palace and Parliament, and Victoria's frustration with the new Constitutional Monarchy.
I personally love Plaidy's style of writing and factual storytelling and would highly recommend this book.
There's never a dull moment in Buckingham Palace!
Eleanor Alice Burford, Mrs, George Percival Hibbert was a British author of abouthistorical novels, most of them under the pen name sitelink Jean Plaidy which had soldmillion copies by the time of her death.
She chose to use various names because of the differences in subject matter between her books the best known, apart from Plaidy, are sitelink Victoria Holtmillion and sitelink Philippa Carrmillion.
Lesser known were the novels Hibbert published under her maiden name sitelink Eleanor Burford, or the pseudonyms of sitelink Elbur Ford, sitelink Kathleen Kellow and sitelink Ellalice Tate.
Many of her readers under one penname never suspected her other identities, Wikipedia Eleanor Alice Burford, Mrs, George Percival Hibbert was a British author of abouthistorical novels, most of them under the pen name sitelink Jean Plaidy which had soldmillion copies by the time of her death.
She chose to use various names because of the differences in subject matter between her books the best known, apart from Plaidy, are sitelink Victoria Holtmillion and sitelink Philippa Carrmillion.
Lesser known were the novels Hibbert published under her maiden name sitelink Eleanor Burford, or the pseudonyms of sitelink Elbur Ford, sitelink Kathleen Kellow and sitelink Ellalice Tate.
Many of her readers under one penname never suspected her other identities, Wikipedia sitelink.
Having already been primed by the Masterpiece Theatre version of "Victoria" a couple of years ago, I had a good idea of the people and events in advance of the reading, but I could also tell that Ms Plaidy had drawn from Queen Victoria's diaries, which she kept almost her entire life, so there was a lot that did feel we were getting the real woman's real thoughts and feelings.
Of course, it didn't hurt that I could picture Rufus Sewell as Lord M throughout my reading of this book! I will be reading therd book in the series at some point have a couple other books piled up, waiting to be read, but if you enjoy historical fiction, particularly about Queen Victoria or the Victorian era, and are prepared to realize that fiction about real people isn't sometimes as exciting as fiction about madeup people because then the author is able to push the storyline further, then you will probably enjoy this book./
Mlle Alice, pouvezvous nous raconter votre rencontre avec The Queen and Lord M,
"J'ai une passion pour cette reine et pour la vie des grands personnages historiques en général.
Après avoir apprécié le premier tome de cette saga romancée, il était temps que je me lance enfin dans celuici.
"
Ditesnous en un peu plus sur son histoire, . .
"Ce second opus se concentre sur l'accession au trône de Victoria et sur sa relation particulière avec son premier ministre d'alors, Lord Melbourne.
"
Mais que s'estil exactement passé entre vous
"Le premier tome nous avait agréablement guidé à travers les méandres qui conduisirent la jeune et déterminée Victoria jusqu'au trône d'Angleterre.
C'était un début prometteur et je fus ravie de retrouver la jeune Reine et de découvrir avec elle les avantages de sa nouvelle position mais également ses difficultés et ses pièges.
Cependant, si l'auteur nous l'avait présentée jusqu'ici comme une jeune femme intelligente et ne se laissant pas dicter sa conduite, son opinion semble avoir changé dans la suite de ce roman.
Même s'il est vrai que Victoria s'est en quelque sorte éprise de son premier ministre et s'est laissée entièrement guider par lui, ici elle apparait telle une sombre idiote et Lord Melbourne comme un incompétent cynique.
Non seulement j'ai trouvé les traits un peu exagérés mais comme le livre entier n'est qu'une longue répétition de leurs entrevues, ça finit par tourner à la caricature.
Un peu décevant donc, "
Et comment cela s'estil fini
"L'histoire s'interrompt juste après le mariage d'Albert et Victoria et ouvre enfin de nouvelles perspectives.
Malgré les quelques bémols évoqués, je reste passionnée par la vie de cette souveraine que ces romans rendent accessible et la lecture demeure agréable.
J'ai donc hâte de me plonger dans le tome suivant, "
sitelink hautetfor This depicts how young and unprepared Queen Victoria was when she ascended to the throne at the age of.
Being sheltered her whole life in addition to her frank emotions and unwavering loyalty allowed her to be inadvertently put into scandal within a year of her coronation.
Overall I enjoyed the book but as others have said the amount of times it was mentioned that Lord M had tears in his eyes was absolutely ridiculous and annoying.
I got the point after two mentions, No need to hammer it home, dear author,
I can see the wisdom of reworking this series of four books into one Victoria Victorious as there is repetition in the first book and this one.
If only Plaidy had been as clear and repetitious as to who's who in this series ex, all of a sudden in this book Cumberland of thest book is now called Uncle Earnest as she was about telling how certain characters felt about certain things.
.
I will continue with the series because I really am enjoying it, The above complaints aren't a huge deal to me, The second in Plaidys four book series on Victoria, Now Queen, this book covers the first few years of her reign and her close relationship with Lord Melbourne.
I really enjoyed Plaidys take on a young, but earnest young Queen who wants to be a good ruler, but is feeling her power after years of being under the total control of her mother and “that Man”.
Written from her perspective, the reader can understand Victorias motives even as they shake their heads at the mistakes of a naïve, but goodhearted young woman.
Off to book three and lots of cartoon hearts over Dearest Albert!
On the morning ofth June, an eighteenyearold girl is called from her bed to be told that she is Queen of England.
The Victorian age has begun,
The young queen's first few years are beset with court scandal and malicious gossip: there is the unsavoury Flora Hastings affair, a source of extreme embarrassment to the queen the eternal conflict between Victoria and her mother, and the young queen's hatred of Sir John Conroy, her mother's close friend.
Then there is the Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne 'Lord M' worldly cynic and constant companion to the queen, himself a veteran of many a latterday scandal.
He proves to be her guiding light until the dashing Prince Albert appears and she falls hopelessly in love.
. .
They really were in love but knew they couldn't be together, So well done and I enjoyed learning more about Lord M's backstory and how this book was more historically accurate than the TV series.
Very excited to read therd book about what happens with Victoria's marriage to Prince Albert and how she wrote Lord M's final years.
I'm not sure if it's the author's writing style that I find annoying or if it's the character of Queen Victoria.
I will probably try one of her books in a different series to find out, Queen Victoria matured a bit in this book, I have to read the next one, which will include her marriage to Prince Albert of Germany, Klidně bych všechno více vyprávěla jako příběh, takhle je to spíše popisné.
Ale upřímně nevadí, i tak to miluju, Lord M's eyes are always tearfilled in this book, it gets to be a bit much! Other than that strangeness, this is a pretty good novelization of the first few years of Queen Victoria's reign, and pretty historically accurate as far as I know.
This book in Queen Victoria series captures the period of young princess Victoria's turbulent relationship with her mother and a plotting adviser of hers who tried his best to obtain a regency in favour of her mother, Victoria's coming of age and ultimate step in to the throne at the tender age of, her struggle to command and lead a country where she had to order around men who were his seniors in age and experience, and her finally finding both her peace and love in the strength of her cousin, Prince Albert, who would become her husband.
The book gives a good insight into the life and character of young Victoria, both as a princess and later as queen.
It is very informative. However, it was more biographic than a story, Since I mistakenly expected a story, I was disappointed, As second book in series this shows really how victoria relied on her prime ministor when she was queen as she had really seperated from her mother as resented her from how she was treated when younger.
Victorian era yes not the most exciting like tudor times but still interesting, good book
I found this pretty dull, It was OK toward the beginning, but by the end, I was ready to be done with it.
In fact, I skipped over aboutpages to get to the last three chapters, My biggest complaint is that she skips years without telling you and alludes to things without clarifying, I have to go to Wikipedia quite often, Also, she doesn't translate the foreign statements, I enjoy the challenge of translating, but I would think most people would not, This book does a great job at showing how young and unprepared Queen Victoria was when she ascended to the throne at the age of.
Being sheltered her whole life in addition to her frank emotions and unwavering loyalty allowed her to be inadvertently put into scandal within a year of her coronation.
There is no true villain here, unless you count "That Man", and who couldn't Several times I found myself going, "You silly girl! The people won't like that!"
I'm very excited to read the next part in the series, which deal with her beloved Prince Consort.
She was so young and innocent, . . Sometimes I wanted to just embrace her and her insecurities others instead I just wanted to scream silly girl what do you think you're doing
Nice book.
Me encanta la historia, siempre lo he dicho, fue por eso que fijé mi atención en este libro, el cual me vendieron a muy buen precio en una feria del libro usado.
Es muy difícil encontrar por internet datosfieles y los libros de historia no te "insertan" dentro de la historia, he ahí la ventaja de las novelas históricas.
Como este libro está basado en la vida de un personaje real es muy difícil que la autora pueda extender su imaginación, por lo que no fue una graaan trama visto de ese punto, Jean Plaidy fue muy fiel a los hechos, incluyendo fechas exactas y fragmentos de documentos, por lo que si leen el libro no se van a encontrar con un perfecto romance.
Reseña completa: sitelink blogspot . I wasn't particularly impressed by this, I was still waiting for it to get going when it ended, I found the writing quite weak, with the same few motifs being reiterated over and over again,.stars
This is Plaidys second book about Queen Victoria, This book opens when Victoria learns she is to be queen atyears old, Her first few years
as queen are very much directed by the Prime Minister at the time, Lord Melbourne.
She becomes very close to him, She has a couple of scandals along the way and things look bad to the public with her reaction when she almost loses him as Prime Minister.
The book ends just as she marries,
This was good, By now Ive read a bit more about Victoria than I had when I read Plaidys first book about her.
But this one had much more detail about her relationship with the P, M. Wish she hadnt relied solely on Melbournes advice, but this is what really happened, I enjoyed reading for the first time about Queen Victoria but I had difficulty with the writing style.
Sooooo boring. Melbourne was such a crybaby and Victoria had no personality whatsoever,
What a disappointment. This sequel of "The Captive of Kensington Palace" depicts the life of the newly titled Queen Victoria from her accession until her marriage with Prince Albert.
Similarly to its predecessor, this book was very very hard to put down, Plaidy describes the highs of Victoria's early reign, under the guidance of Prime Minister Lord Melbourne and the lows which resulted from several scandals within the Palace and Parliament, and Victoria's frustration with the new Constitutional Monarchy.
I personally love Plaidy's style of writing and factual storytelling and would highly recommend this book.
There's never a dull moment in Buckingham Palace!
Eleanor Alice Burford, Mrs, George Percival Hibbert was a British author of abouthistorical novels, most of them under the pen name sitelink Jean Plaidy which had soldmillion copies by the time of her death.
She chose to use various names because of the differences in subject matter between her books the best known, apart from Plaidy, are sitelink Victoria Holtmillion and sitelink Philippa Carrmillion.
Lesser known were the novels Hibbert published under her maiden name sitelink Eleanor Burford, or the pseudonyms of sitelink Elbur Ford, sitelink Kathleen Kellow and sitelink Ellalice Tate.
Many of her readers under one penname never suspected her other identities, Wikipedia Eleanor Alice Burford, Mrs, George Percival Hibbert was a British author of abouthistorical novels, most of them under the pen name sitelink Jean Plaidy which had soldmillion copies by the time of her death.
She chose to use various names because of the differences in subject matter between her books the best known, apart from Plaidy, are sitelink Victoria Holtmillion and sitelink Philippa Carrmillion.
Lesser known were the novels Hibbert published under her maiden name sitelink Eleanor Burford, or the pseudonyms of sitelink Elbur Ford, sitelink Kathleen Kellow and sitelink Ellalice Tate.
Many of her readers under one penname never suspected her other identities, Wikipedia sitelink.
Jean Plaidy