'Not one word of truth' – the biography that left Queen Victoria distinctly unamused

“Not true,” Queen Victoria scrawls. “Not even one word of truth,” she adds, as well as “nonsense”, and “quite false”. The monarch was responding in no uncertain terms to the historian Agnes Strickland’s 1840 account of the queen’s early life, taking its author to task with more than 100 annotations, crossings outs and corrections in a unique edition of an “extremely rare” book that is set to be auctioned in November.
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