The legendary QUEEN VICTORIA. A living symbol of the British monarchy, which reigned for 64 years... We know her from later portraits as a corpulent elderly woman with tired eyes and a puffy face, prim, cold, who gave her name to a whole historical era of strict moral principles, turning into hypocrisy. But she, too, was once passionate and young! Victoria could have become the Russian Empress - but she did not want to give up the British crown, and Grand Duke Alexander Nikolaevich (the future Tsar Liberator Alexander II) married someone else. Having ascended the throne at the age of 18, she inherited, in addition to the throne, the hatred of her own people, who spat at the mere mention of the dissolute royal family, and was able to raise the authority of the monarchy so much that her death became a personal grief for every Englishman. A long-nosed plain woman, prone to being overweight, she won the love of the first handsome man in Europe, to whom she proposed and with whom she lived in a happy marriage for more than 20 years. The death of her beloved husband almost ended her own life, but fate gave Victoria another man who managed to restore her, if not her youth, then the ability to enjoy every day. A Puritan queen, known for her strict morals, in the arms of a servant - is this possible?! Nothing is impossible in life...Read a new book from the bestselling author of Princess Olga and Nefertiti - a thrilling novel about the greatest queen, after whom the unforgettable VICTORIAN ERA is named.