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:
