This, of course, doesn’t make it authentic so much as it makes it annoying. I don’t know why Kirwan decided to do this, but she makes Victoria use the arcane form of ‘choose’ (‘chuse’) without using any other arcane language. You see, sometimes Victoria speaks in the language you would expect of the times and in the same entry you might see language you would use in an email to a friend. In this portrayal of the future Queen Victoria, Anna Kirwan has made her quite ignorant of her station, immature and an incredibly annoying writer.

Part of it was her immaturity and the other part was the annoying quirks Anna Kirwan used to make her ‘unique’. Maybe it’s because I’m a cynical old reader, but even for ten years old she was, quite simply put, an annoying brat. But I do wonder why so many people seem to think a young person’s ears do not work unless they are instructed to by some adult.)Įven for a princess in The Royal Diaries, Victoria is quite young when she’s ‘writing’ this book, at only 10 years old. (I’m sure she would be shocked to know I overheard. remark-though I can’t see that it does much good.

Perhaps he does wear a corset, as I once heard Lady C. His curls were the colour of honey on toast, like that red-gold Russian sable the Princess de Lieven wears.” Now, unfortunately, his beauty has quite fled. Really, one kisses the air over his hand, and that’s a good thing, for he’s so glistening with lotions and powders to cover the liver spots on his skin, which he hates…Īunt Soap says he was a beautiful lad when he was young.

Victoria by Anna Kirwan