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VIII, Footnote 65)] [Pageheading: TORIES, WHIGS, AND RADICALS] _Queen Victoria to the Prince Albert._ BUCKINGHAM PALACE, _21st January 1840._ I am awaiting with immense impatience a letter from you.

Here hardly anything to relate to-day, because we are living in great retirement, until informed that my poor Aunt has been buried.

With the exception of Melbourne and my own people, no one has dined for the last week.
We are all of us very much preoccupied with politics.

The Tories really are very astonishing; _as they cannot and dare not attack us in Parliament, they do everything that they can to be personally rude to me....