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The Letters of Queen Victoria, Volume 1 (of 3), 1837-1843)

CHAPTER VIII
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Both Ernest and Albert are much attached to it, and when deviations took place they were connected more with new branches transplanted out of the parent soil than with what more properly must be considered as the reigning family.
The Peerage question may remain as it is, but it will not be denied that the great object must be to make Albert as English as possible, and that nothing will render this more difficult than a foreign name....
I shall be most happy to see poor Charlotte's bust in the Gallery at Windsor, and it is kind of you to have had the thought.

She was a high and noble-minded creature, and her affection and kindness for me very great.

She had placed the most unbounded confidence in me; our principle had been never to let a single day pass over any little subject of irritation.

The only subjects of that sort we had were about the family, particularly the Regent, and then the old Queen Charlotte.

Now I must conclude with my best love.


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