Königin Viktoria

There is everything in here I expect from a biography: an account about the important events of her life as well as a study of her personality with bits of politics, social changes and other history sprinkled in. While I found the information really interesting, I noticed a few odd things in Ericksons writing. She seems to take pleasure in describing people's appearances in the most unflattering ways. I don't mind stating the opinion of the public from back then, but her choice of words seemed mean-spirited in a way that was distracting. Also, there were some creative liberties taken when expressing what people felt or how someone wept into their pillow that night to a point where it takes novel-like proportions. It's not that often, though, and mostly in the first third of the book, but whenever something like that wasn't backed up with a diary entry or something similar, it felt strange. However, the majority of the book was written as factually as I expect from a biography. Despite the issues it was still great to learn about the queen of my favourite historical period.