This is the second volume of letters between Victoria and her eldest daughter that Fulford edited. Written around and following Prince Albert
's death, they trace the tremendous grief and public withdrawal of Victoria's early...
Violence
Queen Victoria
An assassination attempt was made on QV
, pregnant with her first child, as she and Albert
drove in an open carriage.
Longford, Elizabeth. Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed. Harper and Row, 1964.
151-2
Munich, Adrienne. Queen Victoria’s Secrets. Columbia University Press, 1996.
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Wealth and Poverty
Adelaide O'Keeffe
In the same year the Royal Literary Fund
paid her another twenty pounds and Prince Albert
personally sent her five pounds.