Chas Morris
Published: 2018-04-30
Total Pages: 482
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Excerpt from Queen Victoria, Her Reign and Diamond Jubilee: Comprising a Complete Story of Her Childhood, Youth, Courtship, Marriage, Coronation, Her Eventful Sixty Years' Reign; Interesting Miscellany Regarding the Daily Life of Herself and Family, Their Hopes, Fears, Loves, and Sorrows; Also a Complete Account O No sovereign of modern times has witnessed so great a widening of his domains as did Victoria. When She passed away her subjects numbered over four hundred million people, and her vast empire covered an area of over eleven million square miles. The increase of the empire during her reign was an average of 16 5 square miles of territory a day, being equal to more than the bulk of England each year, or about seventy Englands in sixty years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.