Story written by future Queen Victoria aged 10 to be published for first time

Author Jacqueline Wilson says monarch could have been remarkable novelist in introduction to tale of Alice, 12, who is sent to boarding school Always a diligent diary writer, Queen Victoria's journals run to 141 volumes comprising 43,000 pages, from which extracts were published in what became a bestseller. But one of her earliest works, written when she was 10, is only now set to be published for the first time, giving a fascinating insight into the vivid imagination of the future monarch.