Victoria's Daughters by Jerrold M. PackardMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
Took a longer than usual time for me to read this book, primarily because it was difficult to keep the characters straight there were so many of them. Needed to take a break periodically to pull what I'd read into a semblance of order before continuing. Fascinating time period historically, strangely controlling Queen who was determined to keep at least one of her daughters by her side throughout her long life, daughters of distinctly different personalities whose destinies were also very diverse. All in all a more realistic portrayal of Victoria and her reign than the highly romantic TV series based on diaries that her daughter Beatrice heavily edited once her mother died. This was at Victoria's direction but not only did Beatrice edit them, she destroyed the originals so there could be no retrospective study of them. Sad.
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