I had seen the movie The Young Victoria a few months prior to reading this, so I was slightly familiar with many of the events in her early years but this book brought so many more details of her life into the forefront. This book was my first read on the Princess Victoria. How far will Liza have to go to restore her fortune and put the Princess Victoria on the throne? Will she find independence and romance or find herself a prisoner in the palace, too?” She'll learn about the power of the press and the attractions of one particular newspaperman. Liza's journey will take her through the bowels of the Palace and to the deepest slums of London. And the servants - they know everything of course! Sir John Conroy, a man with no power or connections, is playing for the ultimate prize. The heir to the throne is practically a prisoner.
But nothing is as it seems at the palace. In desperation, she takes a position at Kensington Palace working for the sixteen year old Princess Victoria.
At seventeen, she has lost her family, her home and her future. “Young Elizabeth Hastings knows about suffering.
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