The Adventures of Alice Laselles was written by a 10-year-old Queen Victoria and is to be published this year with a foreword by Jacqueline Wilson
Photo: Royal Collection Trust
A story written by Queen Victoria when she was 10 years old is to be published for the first time, revealing the vivid imagination of a little girl who dreamed about life beyond the palace walls.
The Adventures of Alice Laselles is the charming tale of a girl sent away to boarding school against her will. There is a wicked stepmother, a one-eyed French orphan and a dog called Frisk who dines on buttered toast.
Princess (Queen) Victoria aged 11 in 1830 (Royal Collection Trust/Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2015)
The young Victoria wrote the story as an exercise in English composition. Set down in a red notebook, it was later stored in the Royal archives at Windsor Castle where its existence was known only to a select few.
It will be published on June 8, with the author billed by her full name as “Alexandrina Victoria, aged 10 and ¾”.
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