Queen Victoria to King Leopold I of Belgium – 16 March 1861 On this, the most dreadful day of my life, does your poor broken-hearted child write one line of love and devotion. She is gone! That precious, dearly beloved tender Mother – whom I never was parted from but for a few months – without [read more]
Queen Victoria’s relationship with her mother had always been difficult. This was certainly not helped by Sir John Conroy, the Comptroller of The Duchess of Kent’s household, who had promised to protect the Duchess after the death of the Duke of Kent and she soon came to depend on him. He used to cruelly tease [read more]
Queen Victoria to the Princess Royal – Frogmore, 16 March 1861 On this most dreadful day of my life, I must write you one line! Dear Lady Augusta (who has been like her child) will write to you an account which I could not, beyond that the end was peaceful, painless and that her dear [read more]
Queen Victoria in her Journal – 15 March 1861 Oh, what agony, what despair was this. I knelt before her, kissed her dear hand and placed it next to my cheek; but though she opened her eyes, she did not, I think, know me. She brushed my hand off, and the dreadful reality was before me, [read more]
From the German Empress to Queen Victoria – Charlottenburg, 14 March 1888 Fritz has had a better night and Sir Morell Mackenzie was better satisfied with the state of his throat… But alas, Fritz has had so much to do and with all the previous excitement and emotion it is impossible he should be as [read more]
Princess Mary of Teck was born on 26 May 1867 as the eldest child of Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge and Prince Francis of Teck, later Duke of Teck, at Kensington Palace. Her mother’s sister, the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (born Augusta of Cambridge), was in the room. Her mother later wrote to relatives, “I [read more]
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