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Title: The Widow of Windsor

Author: Jean Plaidy

Narrator: Jilly Bond

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-01-13

Publisher: Isis Publishing Ltd

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Albert is dead and the queen is preparing to spend the rest of her life in mourning. Yet the last years of her reign are to be momentous ones. Palmerston, then Gladstone and Disraeli, govern her empire through the high noon of its heyday.

However, the court at Windsor, Balmoral, Osborne at Buckingham Palace is perpetually shocked by the actions of the queens son, the Prince of Wales. Forever in pursuit of horses, women and scandal, this is the heady harbinger of Edwardian years to come.

Members Reviews:

Lost and Longing

Albert, the love of her life is dead. What is Victoria to do? Her instinct, and only inclination, is to go into mourning and never emerge. Everything reminds her of him. Everything! She cannot forgive her son for his supposed part in the death of his father and she blames herself for letting him go. What's a queen to do?

This is the question on everyone's mind as the Victorian Era comes to a glorious close. Her children are growing up, marrying and having children of her own. Her grandchildren are causing problems; there is still the business of the ever expanding realm to deal with and her ever present, and intense, grief.

Plaidy does a wonderful job summing up the last years of Victoria's life. Those without her believed husband Albert.

There are some things lacking though. I felt like her, or rather England's involvement in affairs abroad, were very much glossed over and she didn't talk about a servant who was very much in Victoria's life at the end and deserved mention. Not John Brown, he is well featured.

However, these lapses weren't too bad, just disappointing. She does make up for it with a very good insight into Victoria's children's lives. I loved reading so much about Bertie's wife, Alexandra of Denmark (and not just because we share a name.) I liked that the book wasn't just completely concerned with Victoria, but those who now had more time with her due to the death of her husband.

This is the last book in the series and the last book in the entire English monarchy saga. It was well worth the 4 year wait I did to read and collect every last book in it.

She has written so many books that millions have enjoyed. This book is as great as all of ...

Jean Plaidy or her other pen names, Victoria Holt, Philippa Carr etc. is a genius with history. She has written so many books that millions have enjoyed. This book is as great as all of her other books. The intrigue of the courts, the main characters, and the stories become real to your eyes as you read each book of past history in a way that is enjoyable and factual. She was truly a one of a kind.

Five Stars

Satisfied

Not really pleased

Book smelled of old yellowed pages,

Five Stars

Very good