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In this memorable book of Queen Victoria, Jean Plaidy re-produces an amazing life-filled with love, success, and tragedy.At birth, Princess Victoria was next in-line for the throne of England, the often-ignored child of the king who died soon after her birth. Her mom and she lived in genteel poverty for many of her youth, exiled from court due to her mother’s hate of her uncles, George IV and William IV. A solid, willful child, Victoria was decided to not be stifled by her effective uncles or her unpopular, preventing mother. The other day, in the age of eighteen, Queen Victoria awoke to the news headlines of her dad William’s demise.