books.google.com - Just eight months old when her father, Edward, duke of Kent, died unexpectedly, the princess Victoria moved significantly closer to England's throne. The task of raising a potential female monarch assumed critical importance for the nation, yet Victoria's girlhood and adolescence have received scant...http://books.google.com/books/about/Becoming_Victoria.html?id=qFOPtHFpmAYC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareBecoming Victoria