Victoria’s Secret: The Private Passion of a Queen

From the moment John Brown arrived as a servant to Queen Victoria's household, he became known across the land as her loyal companion, her fierce protector, and her right-hand man, their friendship immortalized in print and on-screen. But what if there was more to their relationship than we know? And what has history been hiding from us?

To mark the release of her eagerly anticipated new book, Victoria’s Secret: The Private Passion of a Queen, this unmissable event sees historian and author Dr Fern Riddell draw from new evidence to challenge the prevalent image of Victoria as a grieving widow and instead create a compelling human portrait of a woman in passionate midlife.

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