Victoria Princess Royal

From Queen Victoria to the German Crown Princess – Osborne, 2 July 1862 Poor Alice’s wedding (more like a funeral than a wedding) is over and she is a wife! I say God bless her – though a dagger is plunged in my bleeding, desolate heart when I hear from her this morning that she [read more]

From Queen Victoria to the Empress Frederick – Windsor Castle, 27 June 1894 You rejoice as I do, indeed, and as the whole nation does, at the birth of dear George’s boy. It is a great pleasure and satisfaction but not such a marvel, for if Alicky had not refused Eddy in ’89 I might [read more]

From the Queen to the Empress Frederick – Balmoral, 15 June 1888 (Immediately following the death of her daughter’s husband, the German Emperor) Darling, darling, unhappy Child, I clasp you in my arms and to a heart that bleeds, for this is a double, dreadful grief, a misfortune untold and to the world at large. [read more]

From Queen Victoria to the German Crown Princess – Balmoral,  27 May 1887 Darling and Beloved Child, Truly, earnestly and most gratefully do I thank God that the (unnecessary though perhaps not unavoidable) alarm about precious Fritz has been dispelled and that your agony of uncertainty and suspense has been removed. I wish I could [read more]