queen and lord m - jean plaidy torrent

Category: Historical Fiction
Language: EnglishKeywords: Historical Jean plaidy Queen Victoria
Written by Jean Plaidy
Read by Jilly Bond
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 48 Kbps
Unabridged
Queen Victoria #2
Unabridged ; total runtime 8 hours 44 min approx.
On the morning of 20th June 1837, an eighteen-year-old girl is called from her bed to be told that she is Queen of England. The Victorian age has begun.
The young queen’s first few years are beset with court scandal and malicious gossip: there is the unsavoury Flora Hastings affair, a source of extreme embarrassment to the queen; the eternal conflict between Victoria and her mother, and the young queen’s hatred of Sir John Conroy, her mother’s close friend.
Then there is the Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne - ‘Lord M’ - worldly cynic and constant companion to the queen, himself a veteran of many a latter-day scandal. He proves to be her guiding light - until the dashing Prince Albert appears and she falls hopelessly in love …


Queen Victoria #2

Unabridged ; total runtime 8 hours 44 min approx.

On the morning of 20th June 1837, an eighteen-year-old girl is called from her bed to be told that she is Queen of England. The Victorian age has begun.

The young queen’s first few years are beset with court scandal and malicious gossip: there is the unsavoury Flora Hastings affair, a source of extreme embarrassment to the queen; the eternal conflict between Victoria and her mother, and the young queen’s hatred of Sir John Conroy, her mother’s close friend.

Then there is the Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne - ‘Lord M’ - worldly cynic and constant companion to the queen, himself a veteran of many a latter-day scandal. He proves to be her guiding light - until the dashing Prince Albert appears and she falls hopelessly in love …