Philip Mansel

‘Enough to kill any man’: the trials of serving Queen Victoria

Of all the Queen’s prime ministers, Gladstone suffered the most from her wilfulness, but while he opposed her policies he did much to popularise her monarchy

William Gladstone and Queen Victoria. [Hulton Archive/ Getty Images]
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