Serving Victoria: Life in the Royal Household

Kate Hubbard's entertaining book.is a fine examination of both the bizarre and the banal in the domestic machinery of Victoria's court (Observer ) Hubbard would have made a good courtier: her prose is polite, her insight into the tangled relationships of the household impressive. Her achievement is to enter a sealed world, ruled by repetition, and make it compelling (5 stars) (Telegraph ) Hubbard can be delightfully waspish about life at court, and has produced from the most unpromising of raw material a book that is both eye-opening and thoroughly engaging (Sunday Times ) Entertaining account of the royal household.the change of perspective brought about by taking such figures out of the background and into the spotlight is revelatory (Country Life ) Entertaining portrait of Queen Victoria...having plundered a rich vein of fascinating and often new information, Hubbard shows that serving Victoria was no doddle (Val Hennessey Daily Mail ) Book Description A sparkling portrait of the court of Queen Victoria, seen through the lives of her household using never-seen-before diaries and letters