(24 May 1819-22 January 1901)

"It is in one's own power to be happy--and to be contented."
-- Queen Victoria

Letters and Journals

Queen Victoria in Her Letters and Journals edited by Christopher Hibbert
The Letters of Queen Victoria: A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861, Volumes I-III edited by Arthur Christopher Benson and Viscount Esher
Letters of Queen Victoria from the Archives of the House of Brandenburg-Prussia edited by Hector Bolitho, translated by Mrs. J. Pudney and Lord Sudley
Dearest Child: Letters between Queen Victoria and the Princess Royal, 1858-1861 edited by Roger Fulford
Dearest Mama: Letters between Queen Victoria and the Crown Princess of Prussia, 1861-1864 edited by Roger Fulford
Your Dear Letter: Private Correspondence of Queen Victoria and the Crown Princess of Prussia, 1865-1871 edited by Roger Fulford
Darling Child: Private Correspondence of Queen Victoria and the Crown Princess of Prussia, 1871-1878 edited by Roger Fulford
Beloved Mama: Private Correspondence of Queen Victoria and the German Crown Princess, 1878-1885 edited by Roger Fulford
Beloved and Darling Child edited by Agatha Ramm
Advice to My Grand-daughter: Letters from Queen Victoria to Princess Victoria of Hesse edited by Richard Hough
Victoria in the Highlands edited by David Duff
Queen Victoria's Highland Journals edited by David Duff
Leaves from a Journal: A Record of the Visit of the Emperor and Empress of the French and of the Visit of the Queen and H.R.H. the Prince Consort to the Emperor of the French, 1855 edited by Raymond Mortimer
The Queen and Mr. Gladstone edited by Philip Guedalla
Regina vs. Palmerston: The Correspondence between Queen Victoria and Her Foreign and Prime Minister, 1837-1865 edited by Brian Connell

"May God grant that this year may be one of peace and that the many, violent passions--the many, conflicting rights and wrongs may be adjusted with impartiality and justice. Oh! could there be but more Christian feelings and less of passion in this world!"
-- Queen Victoria, 6 January 1864

Biographies

Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed by Elizabeth Longford
Victoria R.I. by Elizabeth Longford
Queen Victoria: A Portrait by Giles Saint Aubyn
Queen Victoria by Lytton Strachey
Queen Victoria, from Her Birth to the Death of the Prince Consort by Cecil Woodham-Smith
Victoria: The Young Queen by Monica Charlot
Queen Victoria Was Amused by Alan Hardy
Queen Victoria's Sketchbook by Marina Warner
Queen Victoria and the Bonapartes by Theo Aronson
King without a Crown: Albert, Prince Consort of England, 1819-1861 by Daphne Bennett
Albert the Good by Hector Bolitho
Albert, Prince Consort by Hector Bolitho
Queen Victoria's Children by Daphne Bennett
Victoria and Albert: A Family Life at Osborne House by H.R.H. The Duchess of York

"Since it has pleased Providence to place me in this station, I shall do my utmost to fulfil my duty towards my country; I am very young and perhaps in many, though not in all things, inexperienced, but I am sure, that very few have more real good will and more real desire to do what is fit and right than I have."
-- Queen Victoria, 20 June 1837

Memoirs

The Story of My Life by Queen Marie of Romania
My Memories of Six Reigns by Princess Marie Louise
For My Grandchildren by Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone
Life with Queen Victoria: Marie Mallet's Letters from Court, 1887-1901 edited by Victor Mallet
Embassies of Other Days and Further Recollections by Walburga, Lady Paget
A Lady in Waiting to Queen Victoria, Being Some Letters and a Journal of Lady Ponsonby edited by Magdalen Ponsonby
Louisa, Lady in Waiting: The Personal Diaries and Albums of Louisa, Lady in Waiting to Queen Victoria and Queen Alexandra edited by Elizabeth Longford
Life at the Court of Queen Victoria, 1861-1901 edited by Barry Saint-John Nevill

". . . I considered that where another person's conscience was concerned one must be tolerant."
-- Queen Victoria

". . . Every age has its advantages and its blessings."
-- Queen Victoria

"What we do not understand now, we shall understand some day--in this life or the next. But we can be sure that the explanation will not be withheld."
-- Queen Victoria

Yvonne Marie Thomas

updated 27 January 2009

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