This resulted from the shortness of her upper lip.

"A pretty girl she is too" was the remark I heard from the visitors as the carriage went on down the drive.

That was my first glimpse of royalty, and I little dreamed that she was to be the longest lived sovereign that ever sat on the British throne, and the most popular woman in all modern times.
Thirty years rolled away and I saw the good Queen again.

The Albert Memorial, erected to the handsome Prince Consort, whom she idolized, had just been completed, and one morning the Queen came incognito to make her first private inspection of the memorial.

Through the intimation of a friend I hurried at once to the Park, and found a small company of people gathered there.