Discover the profound influence of religion on Queen Victoria’s life and its impact on Victorians worldwide in this groundbreaking biography from “The Bookish Owl”. “Queen Victoria: This Thorny Crown” offers the first in-depth exploration of her personal faith, tracing how life events shaped her beliefs. Delve into a complex identity: an Anglican who favored Presbyterian Scotland, a Protestant sympathetic to Lutheranism and Catholicism, and a moralist who defied strict Sabbatarianism. Based on her journals and archival research, this book reveals Victoria’s private convictions and her active role in church and state. It also examines how global religious communities identified with their Queen-Empress, making her an icon of imperial aspirations. Uncover a fresh perspective on a familiar life and the enduring alliance between monarchy and religion in the nineteenth century.