Queen Victoria: A Personal HistoryChristopher Hibberts acclaimed biography of Queen Victoria is as impressive and authoritative as the great woman herself. In 1837 an eighteen year old girl, raised by a German mother, inherited the throne of the United Kingdom. She was to reign as queen and later Empress of India for almost sixty four years, presiding over twenty prime ministers and a period of unprecedented social and political change. Her era became synonymous with moral rigidity