The book focuses on the final weeks, days, and hours of Queen Victoria’s life at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight in January 1901. Rennell masterfully captures the somber atmosphere within the royal household as the 81-year-old monarch’s health rapidly declined. This compelling historical narrative, written by Tony Rennell and published in 2000 (with a major Viking edition in 2001), provides an intimate and minute-by-minute account of the end of the Victorian era.