Dearest Child: Letters Between Queen Victoria and the Princess Royal 1858-1861 edited by Roger Fulford

Book Description

Secondhand. Fair condition. Ex library copy with external stickers and protective plastic covering. Stamps and stickers on inside pages. Front blank endpage, half-title and title page have been glued to the inside front cover. The book starts with the contents page. Marks on foredges and some pages. Binding at back has been reinforced with tape. Dust jacket has tears and discolouration. Dust jacket enclosed in protective plastic cover.

The book contains the intimate, previously unpublished correspondence between Queen Victoria and her eldest daughter, Victoria ("Vicky"), after the latter married Prince Frederick William of Prussia and moved to Berlin. Written during February 1858 and December 1861, when her father, Prince Consort, died.

From this selection emerges a clear picture of family life at Buckingham Palace, Windsor, and Berlin, as it also includes many letters from the Princess, whom the editor describes as the most remarkable English princess of modern history. The Queen's observations on her children, her anxieties about finding a suitable bride for the Prince of Wales (Edward VII), her disapproval of the 'Victorian Sunday', her references to her beloved Scottish hills and her grief at the death of her mother are some of the many endearing aspects of this exceptionally human correspondence.