Product Description

Albert is dead and the queen is preparing to spend the rest of her life in mourning. Yet the last years of her reign are to be momentous years. Palmerston, then Gladstone and Disraeli, govern her empire through the high noon of its heyday. The court at Windsor, Balmoral, Osborne or Buckingham Palace is perpetually shocked by the Prince of Wales, forever in pursuit of horses, women and scandal, the heady harbinger of Edwardian years to come.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #112728 in Books
• Published on: 2008-10-02
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 464 pages

From the Back Cover
Albert is dead and the queen is preparing to spend the rest of her life in mourning. Yet the last years of her reign are to be momentous years.

Palmerston, then Gladstone and Disraeli, govern her empire through the high noon of its heyday.

The court at Windsor, Balmoral, Osborne or Buckingham Palace is perpetually shocked by the Prince of Wales, forever in pursuit of horses, women and scandal, the heady harbinger of Edwardian years to come.

Praise for Jean Plaidy

‘One of England’s foremost historical novelists’ Birmingham Mail

‘Plaidy excels at blending history with romance and drama’ New York Times

About the Author
Jean Plaidy, one of the pre-eminent authors of historical fiction for most of the twentieth century, is the pen name of the prolific English author Eleanor Hibbert, also know as Victoria Holt. Jean Plaidy's novels had sold more than 14 million copies worldwide by the time of her death in 1993.

Customer Reviews

The Widow of Windsor
Another brillaint Plaidy novel. Poor 'Bertie' no matter how hard he works 'Mamma' does not seem to be able to forgive him. Recommended.