From Queen Victoria to the German Empress – Buckingham Palace, 10 March 1888 (On 9 March 1888, the Crown Princess’s father-in-law had died, making her husband the new Emperor of Germany and she its Empress.) It is difficult for me to know how to begin my letter. My heart is very, very full. May every [read more]
From Queen Victoria to the Empress Frederick – Pavillon de la Rochefoucauld, Biarritz, 9 March 1889 I must write another line, for I have thought so much of you today. Oh, what a year of suffering and anxiety between hope and fear! Surely then that dear, dear, too precious life, and that reign, was not [read more]
From Queen Victoria to the Empress Frederick – 7 March 1900 I cannot tell you how grieved I am not to go and see you at Bordighera, or how I pine for the sunny, flowery south, but with the abuse against England and even me, and the war still going on and much to be [read more]
Windsor Castle – 6 March 1873 I wonder Alice is not frightened to go so far away from little Fritzie with that sad prosperity to bleeding. Since ’62 I have never been any distance from Leopold. At least no place which could not be reached within 24 hours and that only once! Tennyson (whose fine [read more]
From Queen Victoria to the Princess Royal – Buckingham Palace, 2 March 1859 Your dear little letter of the 26th – delighted me but still more the quite unexpected delight and surprise of the one of the 28th written quite like your own dear self! It seems does it not – darling – like a [read more]
From Queen Victoria to the Empress Frederick – Windsor Castle, 28 February 1898 How much startled you must have been to hear of this awful attempt on poor Willie of Greece and what a merciful, miraculous escape he and Mary had. It is one of the worst attempts I ever heard of. But it has [read more]
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