Queen Victoria’s spy network
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The Queen's Secrets
Author says she was 'shocked' to find out that the queen tried to interfere with policy using her own secret sources. She stopped britain being involved in a war, which "was quite a big deal" One of victoria's children is married into the danish royal family. So you see not only competition between victoria and her government, you actually see competition betweenvictoria's own children over these spy networks.
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