Victoria... Queen of the English and Empress of India

Victoria, a great queen, sat on the king's bed for sixty years, and governed about four hundred million people in the east and west of the earth. She was supported by the wisest ministers and the shrewdest politicians. Her country rose during her reign to a level unparalleled in any era. The material is abundant about it, filling many volumes, and the field of research is so wide that the historian cannot expand it, but summarizing it in a few pages leaves the writer at a loss. The Arabic language has been devoid of a book in which its history has been written, and many millions of its speakers have joined under the British banner. All of this was a reason for the writer to endure the hardships and compile the chapters of his book, relying on what the translators of her life wrote, and on what he saw in many scientific journals, and narrating it briefly.