From Queen Victoria to the Empress Frederick – Windsor Castle, 6 December 1891 Since yesterday the great event of Eddy’s engagement with May Teck has taken place. People here are delighted and certainly she is a dear, good and clever girl, very carefully brought up, unselfish and unfrivolous in her tastes. She will be a [read more]
From Queen Victoria to the Princess Royal – Windsor Castle, 27 November 1861 Many, many thanks for your dear letter of the 23rd. As you do not mention it yourself – I hope you are all right again and that the rash is past. Dearest Papa has written to you that he is not well [read more]
Read part four here. As he had done earlier, Wilhelm ordered that no one should leave the palace. Even as Victoria went out to cut roses to lay on her husband’s body, she was forced back inside. Wilhelm searched his mother’s rooms for her papers, but he found none. He took over arranging for his [read more]
Read part three here. It was now a waiting game before Friedrich and Victoria could ascend the throne. Friedrich’s father had been in bad health since the beginning of 1885, suffering little strokes. However, in January 1887, Friedrich himself began having persistent hoarseness, which was first thought to be a cold but by the spring, [read more]
Read part two here. Just a year after little Sigismund’s death, Victoria found herself pregnant again. She was depressed at the anniversary of her son’s death, but her mother lovingly wrote to her, “Your Darling – God took to him himself, and he is safe & happy! You will see him again there, where there [read more]
Read part one here. Victoria spent her last day at home – 1 February 1858 – with her mother and 9-month-old sister Beatrice. As she left the next morning, it began to snow. Queen Victoria gathered the entire family in the Audience Room at Buckingham Palace to say goodbye to her eldest daughter. Victoria was [read more]
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