"My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria."

You may also like:

• 

  Adolf Hitler
  Former Chancellor of Germany

• 

  Hilaire Belloc
  Writer

• 

  Iris Murdoch
  Author

• 

  John Betjeman
  Poet

• 

  Josiah Wedgwood
  Potter

• 

  Leo Tolstoy
  Writer

• 

  Queen Elizabeth II
  Monarch

• 

  Queen Victoria
  Former Queen regnant

• 

  John Bayley
  Writer