The book is the reconstruction of Queen Victoria's life after the death of her beloved husband. It's a fascinating read with a lot of new facts. Highly recommended.

Four the forty years after the death of her beloved Prince Albert, Queen Victoria led a reclusive life of widowhood. Or did she? This book reveals her relationship with her children and grandchildren, with her prime ministers, and with her favorites of the court. The book is intriguing, thorough, and easy to read.

Thanks, NetGalley, for the ARC I received. This is my honest and voluntary review.

It was a pleasant and informative read but I wanted to know more about her relationship with the men like Abdul.
It's recommended if you want to learn about Victoria's life
3.5 upped to 4
Many thanks to the publisher for this ARC, all opinions are mine

It's the first book I've ever read on Queen Victoria, but I found it fascinating.
It does a good and brief introduction on her life before and during her marriage to Albert and then it evolves on a novelesque reconstruction of the years and events that followed after widowhood.

It's difficult to write about so many people that share names and are intertwined, but the author did an amazing work at putting everything together in a way that's easy to understand what you're reading.

I am now eager to learn more about Queen Victoria and her numerous offspring.

This was a really interesting book. There was so much info in here that I hadn’t heard about before.

Queen Victoria was the longest-reigning British monarch until Queen Elizabeth II broke that record. She became Queen just one month after turning 18, and she would reign until her death in 1901 at the age of 81. She married her first cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, on 10 February 1840, and they went on to have nine children together. She was very much in love with him, and his early death in 1861 devastated her. 

Queen Victoria After Albert: Her Life and Loves by Ilana D. Miller starts with a focus on Queen Victoria, but it takes over 70 pages (about a third of the book) for Prince Albert to die. For a book with the title "Queen Victoria After Albert", this seems to be rather strange. Then, we get lost in the whirlwind of her children's marriages and her grandchildren's marriages. The book also continues to use one of my biggest pet peeves... nicknames for everyone. This seems to be especially prevalent in books about Queen Victoria and her descendants. It makes for a rather confusing book, and it seems to lose its focus on the main subject - Queen Victoria. I did enjoy reading about her relationships with her various prime ministers. 

You can tell that the author is knowledgeable, the information is all factual, and there is an abundant amount of footnotes. However, I would say there are better books out there about Queen Victoria.

I was hoping this book would go more into detail about the relationship with Mr. Brown and the other men she admired later in life. However, it was mostly focused on her children, the marriages they made, and her grandchildren. It also focused a lot on her relationships with her prime ministers. The writing is very dry as well. Would be a good book for someone wanting to learn more about the reign of Victoria, but no real intimate details of her private life.