Queen Victoria’s journal, 30th November: “Dear Alice’s engagement day, a year ago & St. Andrew’s day. — Dearest Albert slept badly & felt weak & poorly, but he came to breakfast. — Nemours took leave. – Very mild, but showery. — Rode out with Alice, &c but it rained more or less continuously, so that … Continue reading The final illness and death of Prince Albert through Queen Victoria’s letters and journals – 30th November and 1st December 1861: