Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Drawing on Queen Victoria’s diaries, which she first started reading when she was a student at Cambridge University, Daisy Goodwin, creator and writer of the PBS Masterpiece drama Victoria, brings the young nineteenth-century monarch, who would go on to reign for 63 years, richly to life. Goodwin’s impeccably researched historical/biographical novel vividly reimagines young Victoria’s story of youth, love and the often painful transition from immaturity to adulthood. On June 19, 1837, she was a teenager. On June 20, 1837, she was a queen.
Drawing on Queen Victoria’s diaries, which she first started reading when she was a student at Cambridge University, Daisy Goodwin, creator and writer of the PBS Masterpiece drama Victoria, brings the young nineteenth-century monarch, who would go on to reign for 63 years, richly to life. Goodwin’s impeccably researched historical/biographical novel vividly reimagines young Victoria’s story of youth, love and the often painful transition from immaturity to adulthood. On June 19, 1837, she was a teenager. On June 20, 1837, she was a queen.
