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Serving Victoria: Life In The Royal Household (2013)

by Kate Hubbard(Favorite Author)

3.39 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0062269917 (ISBN13: 9780062269911)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Harper

review 1: I have a wish list of 10 people I would most like to meet and Queen Victoria is at the top. Lord Rosebery (briefly one of her Prime Minister's, said that only two people frightened him...Bismarck and Victoria. It is said to be a fear shared by the Queen's children and most of her household. Interestingly enough, the Queen considered her quite large household as family and went out of her way to micromanage and care for them all. She had to be busy...remember this was the time of "the sun never set on the British Empire". That being said this book was dry dry dry. The amount of research that must have gone into this non-fiction work has to be astronomical...reading all those letters and journals from those that put the Queen before their every need. Victoria was obse... moressed with death, never recovering from Prince Albert's demise and even leaving precise instructions on her own funeral. This is the first book I've read that said what things went into the coffin with her and for all you fellow Scots out there-a sprig of heather from Balmoral-was one of them.
review 2: This was not a bad book, just not one I could get into. The book tells the stories of some of the ladies-in-waiting or maids-in-waiting for Queen Victoria. Unfortunately, I had a hard time staying interested, in part because I think the book assumes a certain level of understanding of Queen Victoria's time and the people around her (and I don't have this background knowledge), but also, I found the stories lacking in narrative. I did make it about half-way through before I decided I just didn't want to spend more time slogging through. A more minor complaint - I had a really hard time reading many of this author's sentences. I struggled to understand who or what she was referring too and found myself trying to puzzle out what a sentence was trying to say too many times. less

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