Victoria / Victoria (Spanish Edition), Hardcover

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La novela que recrea la apasionante juventud de la reina Victoria de Inglaterra, por la creadora de la serie televisiva Victoria. En 1837, con apenas 18 a os, Victoria se despierta una ma ana para descubrir que su t o ha muerto y ella va a convertirse en reina de la naci n m s poderosa del planeta. Perolograrser una monarca de pleno derecho o solo una marioneta en manos de familiares intrigantes y ambiciosos pol ticos?Podrimponerse en un mundo de hombres que creen que las mujeres son demasiado inestables para reinar? Todos pretenden casarla con su primo, el pr ncipe Alberto, pero Victoria no tiene ninguna intenci n de acceder a un matrimonio de conveniencia. Prefiere gobernar sola y disfrutar de la compaa del primer ministro, el brillante Lord Melbourne, elnico que la hace re r y que cree que de verdad llegara ser una gran reina. Aunque la visita del pr ncipe Alberto esten marcha, ella ya ha decidido que es aburrido e insoportable porque aslo recuerda de su infancia. Despu s de todo la reina sabe lo quiere... O quiza n no. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION NATIONAL BESTSELLER Drawing on Queen Victoria's diaries, which she first started reading when she was a student at Cambridge University, Daisy Goodwin?creator and writer of the new PBS Masterpiece drama Victoria and author of the bestselling novels The American Heiress and The Fortune Hunter?brings the young nineteenth-century monarch, who would go on to reign for 63 years, richly to life in this magnificent novel. Early one morning, less than a month after her eighteenth birthday, Alexandrina Victoria is roused from bed with the news that her uncle William IV has died and she is now Queen of England. The men who run the country have doubts about whether this sheltered young woman, who stands less than five feet tall, can rule the greatest nation in the world. Despite her age, however, the young queen is no puppet. She has very definite ideas about the kind of queen she wants to be, and the first thing is to choose her name. ""I