Cold Deep Waters on the shores of Botany Bay Australia becomes the setting and sympathetic home for the secret Hanover line. A family cast adrift, torn between two vastly different worlds. It is the true untold explosive story of Queen Victoria's secret life away from the world. It is also the story of my Great Grandmother Victoria and my Great Grandfather, her beloved John Brown. The reader is introduced to Victoria and John Brown's three children; extraordinary lives commencing with an epic journey from England in 1884. The eldest daughter and archetypal Elsie Ursula, the steely and determined princess and my gran who becomes my dearest friend and informant to this story. Elsie's marriage into the Hobson line and her two siblings now all bonded together sharing pseudo and sanitised lives. This is not just an autobiography. It is