“Dearest Uncle, -I hasten to announce to you that yesterday our dear young couple here were engaged, and that we are all very happy. Louis was spoken to yesterday on our return from Aldershot by Albert, who told him he would have an opportunity of speaking to Alice and this opportunity he took last night… Continue reading Letter from Queen Victoria to King Leopold I Of Belgium on the engagement of Princess Alice and Prince Louis of Hesse
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Letter from Queen Victoria to the children of Princess Alice and Prince Louis of Hesse, dated December 1878:
Hesse family group with Queen Victoria, February 1879. From left to right: Princess Victoria; Hereditary Grand Duke, Ernest Louis; Grand Duke Louis IV; Queen Victoria; Princess Irene; Princess Elizabeth; Princess Alix. ©️ Royal Collection Trust / HM King Charles III "Poor dear children, for I write this for you all—you have had the most terrible… Continue reading Letter from Queen Victoria to the children of Princess Alice and Prince Louis of Hesse, dated December 1878:
Letter from Queen Victoria to her uncle Leopold I, King of Belgium, 22nd September 1855, on the engagement of Princess Victoria.
Victoria and Friedrich in March 1863 ©️ Royal Collection Trust / HM King Charles III “My dearest Uncle,—I profit by your own messenger to confide to you, and to you alone, begging you not to mention it to your children, that our wishes on the subject of a future marriage for Vicky have been realised… Continue reading Letter from Queen Victoria to her uncle Leopold I, King of Belgium, 22nd September 1855, on the engagement of Princess Victoria.
Letter from Queen Victoria to the Lord Palmerston, 21st September 1855.
Queen Victoria with her children; Prince Albert Edward and Princess Alice; along with her aunt, the Duchess of Gloucester. Dated 1856. ©️ Royal Collection Trust / HM King Charles III “The Queen is anxious to mark her sense of the services of the Army and Military Departments at home by conferring the rank of Field-Marshal… Continue reading Letter from Queen Victoria to the Lord Palmerston, 21st September 1855.
Letter from Prince Albert to the Earl of Clarendon, 21st September 1855, on the engagement of Princess Victoria.
Princess Victoria and Prince Fredrick ©️ Royal Collection Trust / HM King Charles III “My dear Lord Clarendon,— The Queen wishes me to send you the enclosed letters, with the request that they may be sent by messengers to Coblentz. I may tell you in the strictest confidence that Prince Frederic William has yesterday laid… Continue reading Letter from Prince Albert to the Earl of Clarendon, 21st September 1855, on the engagement of Princess Victoria.
Letter from Queen Victoria to her uncle, King Leopold I of Belgium, following her mothers death on 16th March 1861:
Princess Victoria (later Queen Victoria) with her mother “My dearly beloved Uncle, 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 whom I… Continue reading Letter from Queen Victoria to her uncle, King Leopold I of Belgium, following her mothers death on 16th March 1861: