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Victoria - A Life Moshi From a comprehensive introduction onshimmering and rather wonderful biography. The Guardian(London) When Queen Victoria died in 1901, she had ruled for nearly sixty four years. She was the mother of nine and grandmother of forty two and the matriarch of royal Europe through her children s marriages. To many, Queen Victoria is a ruler shrouded in myth and mystique, an aging, stiff widow paraded as the figurehead to an all male imperial enterprise. But in truth, Britain s longest reigning