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...
Family and Intimate relationships
Queen Victoria
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...