This horrified me, but what made it even worse was that she wasn't at all an insightful reader. I had a library copy, and someone else, as she was reading it, had actually WRITTEN ANNOTATIONS IN THE MARGIN and UNDERLINED PASSAGES. My one quibble with the book didn't actually have to do with the book at all. She also does a good job (for her American readers) of spelling out things that "every British schoolchild" learns, because odds are, we Americans missed out on that. Victoria's life seems to be very well-documented, and Plowden is reasonably good about considering the source of information, rather than taking everything at face value. As you'd expect much was glossed over, simplified, and made rosier, but the story seems to be very much the same.Ĭonsequently, it's an absorbing book. It seems many of major speeches in the movie can be drawn, almost verbatim, from letters of the period.
This seems to be the book most of the movie is based on, and the answer is: More than you'd think. And also (a little) wondering how much of it was really true. I have to admit that I read this after seeing the movie "The Young Victoria," and enjoying it quite a bit.
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