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|title=Victoria: A Life

|author=A N Wilson

|publisher=Atlantic

|date=September 2014

|video=gSOy_Ngl9VE

|summary=A new biography of the Queen, based partly on previously unseen sources, and providing some fresh assessments of her character.

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Every few years, it seems, we are presented with another generously-sized biography of Queen Victoria. How many times can another author follow Elizabeth Longford, Stanley Weintraub, or Christopher Hibbert to name but three, produce 500 pages or more and still say something new about her? Can the blurb’s claim that this shows us the sovereign ‘as she’s never been seen before’ really be justified? Fortunately it can, for even more than a century after her death, there is still new material from previously unseen sources to add to what we already know about her.