This is a lovely book with many illustrations, paintings, photographs, copies of invitations, official announcements, menus, etc.

Contained therein:

The Children of Queen Victoria & Prince Albert
Queen Victoria's Prime Ministers & Their Terms of Office
The Pelham-Clintons
Principle Events 1861-70
Selections from the Journals of Queen Victoria
Principle Events 1871-80
Principle Events 1881-90
Principle Events 1891-1901
List of Precedence
Lord Edward's Diary


What marvelous occasions! The experience of such a rich & lavish life is difficult to imagine...

I was very amazed to see sketches done by HRH Victoria, herself, of her son Prince Arthur at age 3. She was a quite good artist, even if she did dress her sons in girl's clothing. It is all very well written & interesting.

**************Quotes I Found Interesting**********************

"But the Queen did not really approve of the education and emancipation of the working classes, saying that education made them unfit foe work as good servants and labourers, nor of women, and she was heard to say of the daughter of Earl of Russell (a former Prime Minister), who had spoken in the cause of female suffrage: 'She ought to get a goos whipping.'"

Queen Victoria was considered "to be an opinionated and interfering little woman who almost drove her Prime Ministers mad with her meddling in State business, (and) sometimes believed herself to be an Absolute, instead of Constitutional Monarch." ( )