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Becoming Queen (2008)

by Kate Williams(Favorite Author)

3.98 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

009179479X (ISBN13: 9780091794798)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Hutchinson

review 1: An interesting, solid read about Charlotte whose untimely death led to Victoria becoming queen. Both had difficult childhoods with idiot parents and both became difficult, strong willed but well meaning women. I am always amazed at how inbred that royal bunch was with cousins repeatedly marrying cousins and also all the petty fighting and rivalries. I like the short chapters that moved the story along though at times all the pettiness and fighting grew dull. Overall, this was a good biography that showed its subjects as very real, flawed humans who did quite well considering their upbringing.
review 2: This misleadingly entitled historical offering was long, and with its many pages of endnotes, seemed like a scholarly dissertation - one that required this Ame... morerican reader to frequently refer to the family tree provided at the beginning. Becoming Queen Victoria was mainly about Queen Charlotte, daughter of mad King George. Charlotte died young. Her family was a dysfunctional mess, but, for that matter, so was Victoria's. After reading about the rafters of do-nothing royals who populated the British royal family during the 18th and 19th centuries, it is amazing that there are any monarchists left in Britain! I probably read about half of this tome - and half was enough! I got the point - nothing all that amazing - meticulously researched - just not my cup of tea. (Ouch - sorry!) less

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