The birth of "pocket Hercules" -- The death of a father -- The lonely, naughty princess -- An impossible, strange madness -- "Awful scenes in the house" -- Becoming queen: "I am very young" -- The coronation: "a dream out of The Arabian nights" -- Learning to rule -- A scandal in the palace -- Virago in love -- The bride: "I never, never spent such an evening" -- Only the husband, and not the master -- The palace intruders -- King to all intents: "like a vulture into his prey" -- Perfect, awful, spotless prosperity -- Annus Mirabilis: the revolutionary year -- What Albert did: the Great Exhibition of 1851 -- The Crimea: "this unsatisfactory war" -- Royal parents and the dragon of dissatisfaction -- "There is no one to call me Victoria now" -- "The whole house seems like Pompeii" -- Resuscitating the widow of Windsor -- The queen's stallion -- The faery queen awakes -- Enough to kill any man -- "Two ironclads colliding": the queen and Mr. Gladstone -- The monarch in a bonnet -- The "poor munshi" -- The Diamond Empire -- The end of the Victorian Age: "the streets were indeed a strange sight."
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