Jane Ridley

Award-winning biographer Jane Ridley explores the extraordinary life and reign of one of Britain’s greatest monarchs overturning the established picture of the dour old lady with a fresh and engaging portrait of a female monarch reigning in a time of intense change. In an illustrated talk she explores how Queen Victoria used her gender and family to define and enhance her power and how her reign and the Victorian age shaped the monarchy we know today.

Queen Victoria is part of the Penguin Monarchs series.