The queen was grief-stricken at his death. Her devastation resembled that which she had experienced after the death of Prince Albert
. In a letter to her secretary, Sir Henry Ponsonby
, she compared the...
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Queen Victoria
In the year that More Leaves was published, QV
composed a memoir of her Highland servant John Brown
(who had died the previous year), based on Brown's own diaries. She wanted this memoir to be...
