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31:25. Gladstone and the Very-Much-Not-Amused Queen (keep watching
That period encompassed the death of Vicky’s husband though, didn’t it and the famous episode when Sir Frederick Ponsonby smuggled sensitive letters and documents out of the house under the very eyes of the new Kaiser, Frederick and Vicky’s son, and the troops he’d ordered to surround the place? Perhaps that is partly the explanation.
https://europeanroyalhistory.wordpress.com/2016/12/03/royal-grief-part-iv/
I have read the volumes of letters you’ve listed but I also have vague memories of a volume of Queen Victoria’s letters edited by Lord Esher in the early 20th century as well.
Later: Found the explanation. Fulford never edited any more volumes. A Ramm completed the series in 1990, with his edition ‘Beloved and Darling Child’ 1886-1901’. (Stroud 1990) I knew I’d read something like that!
On November 1, 1858 Queen Victoria gave a proclamation which declared that India was a British dominion. This declaration was ratified by the Government of India Act in Parliament.
Queen Victoria's Faberge Christmas gift from the Romanovs
Queen Victoria was an only child. How did she have siblings?
Various sources report that the Duke of Kent had mistresses. In Geneva, he had two mistresses, Adelaide Dubus and Anne Moré. Dubus died at the birth of her daughter Adelaide Dubus (1789 – in or after 1832). Anne Gabrielle Alexandrine Moré was the mother of Edward Schenker Scheener (1789–1853). Brought up in Geneva as the ostensible son of Thimothée Schencker, his father promised to find him a post in the UK civil service and in 1809 he was appointed a clerk in the Foreign Office, being retired with a pension in 1826. When his half-sister Victoria became Queen in 1837, with his English wife Harriet Boyn (1781-1852) he returned to Geneva, where he died in 1853. He had no children.
She also had a half-brother on her father's side.