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 |author=Kate Hubbard
 |title=Serving Victoria: Life in the Royal Household
-|rating=Unreviewed
+|rating=4.5
 |genre=Biography
-|summary= (Chatto & Windus)
+|summary=
+Biographies old and new of Queen Victoria, her husband and her children are plentiful enough. The vast majority of them are based to some extent on the diaries, memoirs and biographies of some of the most important figures who served her, and Kate Hubbard has put these as well as supplementary archive papers to good use in presenting a thoroughly engrossing account of the royal household throughout the Queen’s lengthy reign. I might almost say ‘lively’, though that could be an exaggeration. The court of Victoria may have been homely after a fashion, but for the most part it was hardly lively.
 |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701183683</amazonuk>
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