Queen Victoria: A Personal History

This book is a good companion to the PBS TV series, "Victoria". It is full of small details of the life Queen Victoria ,her husband and many in her court. This differentiates this historical biography from so many others. It is a pleasant read that is full of information about not just the British Monarchy,but life in much of the ruling classes in Europe. It explains a lot of events that followed in history.

I just finished reading Queen Victoria: A Personal Story, and have been thoroughly fascinated with her life. She lived a very long life, especially for the times. One of her grandsons commented at her death that "she had lived from the time of King George 3rd until the Twentith Century." She lived an interesting life, and could be kind, benevolent, caring one moment and haughty the next. She was quite eccentric.

I am an avid reader of royal biographies and have read about Queen Victoria many times before. Christopher Hibbert has done us a wonderful service in writing this book. It is well researched, accurate and shows Queen Victoria the woman as well as being a mighty Queen and Empress. I especially enjoyed the way Hibbert provided information about the Royal Family and the Queen's ministers.Congratulations Christopher.Charles

I've read a couple of other bookstore bought history books about Queen Victoria and this is by far the most dense with information, which (at least for me) required a lot of attention. I'm not surprised it wasn't carried at either of my local bookstores, and that I had to order it from Amazon. If you want something very detailed, I recommend this. If you've read shorter accounts of Queen Victoria, this book will flesh out a lot of her life for you.

Very interesting, never boring ,good read. Would read more books by this author

Bought it for my mother for Christmas, it's a big book she finished it in like 4 days, she's a history buff she's 95 and the book was very well written she said, I picked this because I read the review on it on Amazon before buying it and it's true it's a very well written interesting book to read.

Amazing times to venture thru this book of ugly to amazing events in the Victorian era .

A very good book about the life of Queen Victoria. Beginning with king George and explaining how the throne came to her. Also in depth about the life of Prince Albert. I literally could not put it down!

Un'ottima biografia, molto ben documentata e scritta bene. tra le migliori

Hibbert's biography of Victoria is one of the best works of biographical fiction I've ever had the pleasure to read. Hibbert has managed to reduce the life of one of the most important western figures of the 19th century to a cogent, coherent and extremely entertaining account.Perhaps his greatest achievement is to make us see her as a real woman with a stubborn, imperious and quite often contradictory nature whose increasingly reclusive personality became the emblem of a century. At the end of it, I came away with the feeling of having known the person behind the almost semi-divine figure she had become in the eyes of her subjects by the end of her reign. A monumental achievement, by any standard.

looks like it will be an enjoyable read

Not knowing almost anything about Queen Victoria, this book has allowed me to introduce myself to her life and character. The inclusion of fragments of letters written by her or other people surrounding her, as well as her journals, helps the reader to feel closer to her and her time.

This book is certainly well worth reading. Hibbert brings Victoria back to life! You feel that you are actually walking along the corridors of the palace with her entourage. I found it very useful that there is a family history diagram at the front so that one can work out who Victoria is in relation to George lll, George 1V and who her father and mother were etc. because very often we think of her as an old woman without actually knowing where she came from. P.s I'm not going to tell you; if you don't know then you will have to get this book!