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From Queen Victoria to the Empress Frederick – Osborne,  31 July 1900 I little thought when I wrote yesterday giving a bad account of beloved Affie that the end was so near. It is too terrible and, I fear, must be a great shock to you. We have been kept quite in the dark and [read more]

From Queen Victoria to the German Empress – Windsor Castle, 7 July 1888 How well I know that feeling when the months change and the year. I have now been a widow four years and half more than I was a wife. And I had hoped for a year or two, and more, to be [read more]

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]