Produced by Al Haines [Frontispiece: QUEEN VICTORIA, PRINCE ALBERT AND THE ROYAL FAMILY. _From the Picture by F. Winterhalter_.] QUEEN VICTORIA BY LYTTON STRACHEY LONDON CHATTO & WINDUS 1921 TO VIRGINIA WOOLF CONTENTS CHAPTER TOC I. ANTECEDENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 II. CHILDHOOD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 III. LORD MELBOURNE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 IV. MARRIAGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 V. LORD PALMERSTON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 VI. LAST YEARS OF THE PRINCE CONSORT . . . . . . 185 VII. WIDOWHOOD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218 VIII. MR. GLADSTONE AND LORD BEACONSFIELD . . . . . 240 IX. OLD AGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269 X. THE END . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307 ZZZ BIBLIOGRAPHY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311 ETOC ILLUSTRATIONS QUEEN VICTORIA, PRINCE ALBERT AND THE ROYAL FAMILY. From the picture of F. Winterhalter, at Buckingham Palace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _Frontispiece_ PRINCESS VICTORIA IN 1836. From a print after the picture by F. Winterhalter LORD MELBOURNE. From the portrait by Sir Edwin Landseer, R.A., in possession of the Earl of Rosebery QUEEN VICTORIA IN 1838. From the portrait by E. Corbould PRINCE ALBERT IN 1840. From the portrait by John Partridge, at Buckingham Palace QUEEN VICTORIA AND THE PRINCE CONSORT IN 1860 QUEEN VICTORIA IN 1863 QUEEN VICTORIA IN 1876. From the portrait by Von Angeli, in possession of Coningsby Disraeli, Esq. Presented by Her Majesty to the Earl of Beaconsfield QUEEN VICTORIA IN 1897 _For facilities afforded in regard to the reproduction of certain of the above, thanks are due to Mr. John Murray_. _Authority for every important statement of fact in the following pages will be found in the footnotes. The full titles of the works to which reference is made are given in the Bibliography at the end of the volume_. _The author is indebted to the Trustees of the British Museum for their permission to make use of certain unpublished passages in the manuscript of the Greville Memoirs_. {1} QUEEN VICTORIA CHAPTER I ANTECEDENTS I