[EBOOK]⚡ Encounters with Victoria: Queen Victoria's Reign Through Significant Meetings

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Encounters with Victoria: Queen Victoria's Reign Through
Significant Meetings
Sinopsis :
Lucy Worsley presents a 10-part BBC radio exploration of
Queen Victoria&#8217reign via notable encounters. In this
revealing series, acclaimed historian and Chief Curator at
Historic Royal Palaces Lucy Worsley explores the reign of
Queen Victoria through pivotal figures in her life. We meet 10
key individuals - some well known, others less so - and find out
how they influenced the queen, what she thought of them -
and what they thought of her.Beginning with
Victoria&#8217prime minister and closest advisor, Lord
Melbourne, Worsley goes on to introduce us to the
queen&#8217lady-in-waiting, Lady Flora Hastings the Mayor
of Newport, Thomas Phillips, governess Louise Lehzen and
two popular American entertainers, Tom Thumb and Buffalo
Bill - as well as dresser Frieda Arnold celebrity nurse Florence
Nightingale royal &#8216faourite&#8217Abdul Karim and
Bishop Randall Davidson.There are also encounters of a

different kind, as Lucy Worsley chronicles Victoria&#8217grief
at the death of her husband, Prince Albert, and records
Victoria&#8217own final days and the crowd of people who
gathered as Britain&#8217longest reigning monarch breathed
her last.Travelling from Kensington Palace to a luxury hotel on
the C&#244ted&#8217Azr, Worsley talks to eminent writers
and historians and draws on letters and diaries including the
queen&#8217own journal to provide fascinating insight into
Victoria&#8217world and those who helped shape it.Accession
Day and Kinky Lord M - 1837 With historian Philip ZieglerPoor
Lady Flora - 1839 With historian Kathryn HughesA Wounded
Welshman - 9 December 1839 With historians Les James and
Rhian E. Jones and curator Oliver BlackmoreThe Governess -
3 September 1842 With Historic Royal Palaces curator Claudia
WilliamsAmerican Idols - 1844 and 1887 With historian Helen
Davies and V&ampAcurator and writer Nicholas RankinThe
Dresser - Frieda Arnold, 1854 With Beatrice Behlen, Senior
Curator at the Museum of London, and Joanna Marschner,
Senior Curator at Historic Royal Palaces, Kensington PalaceA
Nightingale at Balmoral - Florence Nightingale - September
1856 With historian Mark BostridgeAn Encounter with Death -
13 December 1861 With historian Helen RappaportMutiny
Against an Indian - 1897 With historians Priya Atwal and
Shrabani BasuThe Sinking of a Great Ship - Bishop Randall
Davidson - 25th January 1901 With writer and historian A.N.
WilsonExtracts from Queen Victoria&#8217Journals by
Gracious Permission of Her Majesty The Queen.