Victoria Rebels

Zusatztext Meyer ably reconstructs Queen Victoria’s childhood in this mild historical novel! in which a young princess struggles to reconcile her desires with her place in history. Stifled by a controlling mother and placed in the center of a power struggle between that mother and King William! Victoria longs for the day when she can be her own woman. Her inevitable marriage is another threat to her independence! until she meets Prince Albert and falls in love. Once she is queen! her passionate but self-righteous childishness gives way to a more balanced woman willing to admit mistakes! in part thanks to Albert’s equally passionate opinions. . Meyer’s intimate and authentic portrait will engage readers looking for a personal connection or proof that history’s largest figures were once just like them. Informationen zum Autor Carolyn Meyer is the acclaimed author of more than fifty books for young people. Her many award-winning novels include Mary, Bloody Mary --an ABA's Pick of the Lists, an NCSS-CBC Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies, and an ALA Best Book for Young Adults--and Marie, Dancing , a Book Sense Pick. She is also the author of Cleopatra Confesses and Victoria Rebels . She lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and you can visit her at ReadCarolyn.com. Klappentext Through diary entries, reveals the life of Britain's strong-willed and short-tempered Queen Victoria from the age of eight through her twenty-fourth birthday, up to her third wedding anniversary with her beloved Albert in 1843.Victoria Rebels Chapter 1 KENSINGTON PALACE, ENGLAND, 1827 I hate Sir John Conroy. Mamma knew that I was never fond of him, though she did not suspect how much I despised him. “He has been a good friend to us since your papa died, Vickelchen,” she reminded me often. My father, the duke of Kent, had died when I was an infant. “I do not know what I would do without Sir John.” He may have been a friend to Mamma—too good, in my opinion—but he was never a friend to me, though he pretended to be. And I had to pretend that I did not loathe him. Sir John was very tall and did not trouble to bring himself down to meet my eye, so that I always had to tilt my head to gaze up at him. He often spoke to me in what he seemed to consider a jocular manner, once telling me that I reminded him of Dickey, my pet donkey. “Stubbornly resistant to being guided in a new direction,” he said, and burst into a loud guffaw. I was not at all amused. But that is not why I despised him. It was Sir John’s fault that Feodore, my half sister, left England. I loved Feodore, whom I called Fidi, more than almost anyone except dearest Daisy, my governess. (I always called her Daisy, though her name was Louise Lehzen.) And except Mamma, of course. We were preparing to celebrate my sister’s twentieth birthday, on the seventh of December, when Fidi told me the news. I had returned to our apartment in Kensington Palace from an afternoon walk with dear Daisy. Promising to be absent only a minute or two, my governess left me alone to practice the sums assigned that morning by my tutor. I heard Fidi’s special knock and rose from my writing table, thinking how pleased she would be with the gifts I had for her—a pair of pearl earrings and a drawing I’d made of myself, though I had placed the eyes too close together. Fidi flung herself into Daisy’s empty chair. My sister was very beautiful, with dark hair and a pretty mouth, but now her lovely brown eyes were puffed and reddened. She burst into sobs. I had never seen her in such a state. “Dearest Fidi, what’s wrong?” “Tonight at dinner Mamma will announce that I’m to marry Prince Er...

Product details

• Authors: Carolyn Meyer
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster USA
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 12 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2013
• EAN: 9781416987291
• ISBN: 978-1-4169-8729-1
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Paula Wiseman Books; Paula Wiseman Books
• Subject: Children's and young people's books