Queen Victoria and Her Amusements

Horribly Famous

by Alan MacDonald

You've probably heard of Queen Victoria...She's dead famous for marrying a chap called Albert, wearing black clothes - all the time, and for saying "We are not amused". But have you heard that Queen Vic went on her holidays in disguise, was best pals with her Scottish servant and loved playing cards...for money?

Genres: History, Childrens, Historical, Humor, Nonfiction, Biography, Audiobook

176 pages, Paperback

First published May 17, 2002

Reviews

[Leya · Rating 3 out of 5]

Discovered these books that present history at such a fun level. Enjoyed learner about Queen Victoria.

[Carmel · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read Queen Victoria and Her Amusements in audiobook. The book was narrated by Geoffrey Palmer. For me, this is a great option while browsing the internet. Instead of listening to music, this is a fun and entertainment way to learn about British history.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF9gd...

[Misa · Rating 3 out of 5]

A fun way to learn about history and some famous hitorical figures.

[Laurie · Rating 3 out of 5]

A children’s nonfiction book, written tongue in cheek. I found this to be amusing and informative.

[hei yan · Rating 4 out of 5]

this book was very funny, because it looked at the royal family's life in an amusing perspective. i like how they told the story using many ways, like comics and cartoons. i'm glad it wasn't boring like other history books, and it taught me a lot about queen victoria, her family and how the times she ruled in were like.

[Lucy · Rating 4 out of 5]

I've always loved the Dead Famous/Horrible Histories series, ever since I was a kid. They teach history in an interesting way to children- they're also easy to understand, so they're good if you're looking for a light read, or if you're looking for background information on a history topic you're studying, like I was.

This book was highly amusing, and at times made me burst out laughing. I learnt a lot of interesting facts about the Victorian era- for example, some people were so poor, they went to sleep on 'pennyropes' (for the price of a penny, you could sleep/hang on a piece of rope). However, I've discovered that this book emits a lot of essential facts/information about the period- for example, it doesn't go into detail about the 'bad' side of the period- it doesn't mention Jack the Ripper, or much about the Industrial Revolution. But who can blame McDonald? This book is, after all, a children's book, and stuff like that would scare the crap out of children... well, the story of Jack the Ripper would, anyway.

[Christie Halstead · Rating 4 out of 5]

fun read and interesting

[Kanmani Gobal · Rating 5 out of 5]

Learn history the funny way; only with a lot of sarcasm and satire.

[Guguk · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is a complete amusement! History, gossip, funny and serious things mixed up into a book for all ages ^ ^

[Mark Price · Rating 3 out of 5]

this book was for the short story category and was a very interesting, humerus book about queen Victoria. it was also a very factual book.

[Lottie · Rating 3 out of 5]

I prefered this book to the Henry VIII one as I knew most of the information in the Henry book as I had learnt about Henry at school.
I enjoyed this as it had some real extracts of Victoria's diary (not much but it still gave an insight to her life). Like the Henry one it did have a made up diary which I didn't really like, but thats probably because I'm older and not a child I definitely think children would enjoy this more as it is aimed at then and it is simple to read and understand.
Reading this book made me want to watch the Victoria series that aired last year in the UK as it made me more interested to find out about Queen Victoria's life and I heard it was really good.