TY - SOUND AU - Goodwin,Daisy AU - Wilson-Jones,Anna ED - Mammoth Screen (Firm) TI - Victoria SN - 9781427274359 PY - 2016///] CY - New York, NY PB - Macmillan Audio KW - Victoria, KW - Albert, KW - Great Britain KW - Kings and rulers KW - Succession KW - History KW - Fiction KW - Biographical fiction KW - lcgft KW - Historical fiction KW - Audiobooks N1 - Compact discs; Includes a bonus conversation with the author; Co-produced by Mammoth Screen and Masterpiece; Read by Anna Wilson-Jones N2 - In 1837, less than a month after her eighteenth birthday, Alexandrina Victoria, sheltered, small in stature, and female, became Queen of Great Britain and Ireland. Many thought it was preposterous: Alexandrina, Drina to her family, had always been tightly controlled by her mother and her household, and was surely too unprepossessing to hold the throne. Yet from the moment her uncle William IV died, the young Queen startled everyone: abandoning her hated first name in favor of Victoria; insisting, for the first time in her life, on sleeping in a room apart from her mother; resolute about meeting with her ministers alone ER -