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with a loud scream on the night of the
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14th of December 1861 Queen Victoria
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gave first vent to her grief a lifetime
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of mourning for her husband Albert the
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Prince Consort
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had begun that night the Prince Consort
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died from typhoid Queen Victoria was my
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great-great-grandmother there's no doubt
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that the death of Prince Albert led to a
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period of great uncertainty for the
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monarchy and the country the Queen shut
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herself away with her family and
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household at Osbourne on the Isle of
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Wight or Balmoral she came to Windsor
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solely to visit the mausoleum here at
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Frogmore and spent hours praying at this
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great shrine she'd built for her husband
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the green have become a recluse
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immersing herself in green
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the Queen wore black for the rest of her
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life her court had to dress in Half Moon
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even estate workers at Balmoral dressed
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in black kilts shops in London ran out
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of black material railings all over the
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country were painted black and have
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remained so ever since a whole industry
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grew up supporting the cult of death
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the Queen shot herself up at Osbourne
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and refused to go to Windsor or
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Buckingham Palace to be near the seat of
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government without the gone she couldn't
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cope it said she feared she was becoming
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unhinged one morning at Osborn she was
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heard shouting in desperation by an open
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window
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she struggled to do her duty Privy
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Council meetings at Osborn was strange
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Affairs first ministers had to travel
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down from London to the Isle of Wight
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following this letter
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we must humbly submit that Your Majesty
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will buy your order in council authorize
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the transmitting of a draft of a Royal
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Charter for erecting the British
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settlement in the bay of Honduras into a
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colony to be called the colony of
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British Honduras approved we beg leave
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most humbly to authorize a salary of the
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officer in charge of the dockyard
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at Deptford
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approved
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Queen Victoria's grief was terrible
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she plunged the country into seemingly
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endless mourning Buckingham Palace was
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empty for two years and was eventually
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boarded up son wagged put a notice on
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the railings which said these commanding
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premises to be let or sold in
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consequence of the late occupants
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declining business the Queen was no
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longer doing what her public expected of
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her
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they were baffled and then angry her
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ministers had very strong views but the
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Queen's main concern was a national
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memorial to her late husband her cause
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and his skeptical House of Commons was
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given a boost by an ambitious politician
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Benjamin Disraeli who argued the
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memorial should represent the character
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of the prince himself in the harmony of
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its proportions in the beauty of it
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solomon and in its enduring nature so
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that those who come after us may say
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this was the type and testing me to a
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sublime life and the transcendent career
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all this was music to the Queen zero
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later after Disraeli carried the vote
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through Parliament he was invited along
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with other ministers to the wedding of
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the Queen's eldest son Bertie the Prince
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of Wales to Princess Alexandra of
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Denmark at Windsor the Queen in black
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watched ghost like high up from the
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gallery
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after the ceremony there was the
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obligatory photograph with a bust of
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Prince Albert at the end of 1864 an
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event at Osborne lifted the Queen from
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her misery one morning she saw on the
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terrace John Brown Prince Albert's
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favorite Gilley from Balmoral the Queen
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had asked that he be brought south to
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help her take up horse riding again
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that day Queen Victoria appeared happy
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Braun was suddenly always at the Queen
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side she refused to go anywhere without
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him she felt safe with him and gave him
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the title the Queen's Highland 7 answer
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will end to herself but Braun the
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swarthy Highlander became known as the
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master of the cold and the shadow behind
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the throne
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Browns mana with his sovereign did
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appear to be brother brewski again with
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our old dress on you again for tis my
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own green women feel like a kid I'm
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thinking that's enough John Brown was
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strongly disapproved off by the court
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but his over familiarity with the
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subject but he gave her the reassurance
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and protection she appeared to need his
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influence was the first step in her
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rehabilitation as dutiful sovereign the
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Queen's Highland servant was seen to
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adopt heirs when the mayor of Portsmouth
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arrived at Osborn with a request to the
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Queen he was surprised by the way her
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answer was delivered the queen says
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suddenly not just ago my request was for
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the Queen did I wish the Queen Stiles is
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busy but nothing Brown did seem to alter
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the Queen's affection for you first he
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raised his salary from a hundred and
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twenty pounds year to 150 and then he
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was paid three hundred and ten pounds
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and finally four hundred
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the cruel title of mrs. Brown reflected
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the discontent now being felt within the
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country at least the queen in her
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seclusion was aware she was unpopular
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when the ruling Liberal Party failed to
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pass the second reform bill a measure
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that would have put a million new
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householders mainly the middle classes
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onto the Electoral Register the Queen
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knew that the discontent amounted to
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republicanism when an incoming
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Conservative government promised to try
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to enact the new reform bill the Queen
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decided she should open the new
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parliamentary session it was the first
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time in nearly six years she'd been seen
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in two state occasion the battle for the
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second reform bill one great festes for
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Disraeli who successfully steered it
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through the Commons for the Conservative
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Party Queen Victoria gave her assent to
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the new Act in August 1867 and here's
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her signature on the Royal Commission at
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a stroke it doubled the number of people
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entitled to vote although the Queen
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wasn't aware of it at the time the
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passing of this bill would help to shift
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power into the hands of the electorate
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the Queen's troubles did not go away
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Finian's who are Irish Republicans based
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in America were involved in terrorist
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incidents up and down the country
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Ireland which was still part of the
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United Kingdom was the key issue for
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William Gladstone the leader of the
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Opposition Liberal Party his long-term
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plan was Irish self-government an idea
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that horrified the Queen then the
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government reported that finials was
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secretly planning to kidnap the Queen
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from Osbourne make sure you cover all
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the with all the way down to the
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maintain they begged her to go to the
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safety of Windsor Castle the Queen
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refused believing that it was only apply
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to Esau back into affairs of State
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instead she allowed police to be posted
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in the grounds of the park
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provided that Brown could organize them
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when the plot turned out to be a hoax
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the Queen felt triumphant leave it
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with some relief the queen was able to
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ask Disraeli to become Prime Minister
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when the present Conservative leader
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became ill she was overwhelmed by his
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exotic appearance when he was sworn in
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at Osborn he is full of poetry romance
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and chivalry when he knelt down to kiss
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my hand which he took in this is he said
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in loving loyalty and faith mom
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there began an extraordinary
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relationship between sovereign and Prime
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Minister Disraeli needed the support of
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the Queen in his duel with the
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opposition leader his great rival
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William Gladstone
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so Disraeli set out to flatter and charm
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the grieving widow as long as we are
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advised of your proposals you see we
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need to know can you hope that in the
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great affairs of stage your Majesty will
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deign not to withhold from him the
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benefit of your Majesty's guide
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Disraeli was also a popular novelist and
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he made sure the Queen was provided with
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graphic inside details and all the
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gossip from parliament but the idiot
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came to an end the Queen was informed
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that Israeli had been defeated in the
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House by Gladstone and was offering to
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resign in desperation she implored him
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to carry on until the new electoral
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register was ready but Disraeli lost the
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ensuing general election the Monarchs
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traditional power to have a say in the
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choice of government was over forever
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the Queen had lost out to the will of
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the newly enlarged electorate as
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Disraeli gracefully bowed himself out of
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the Queen's presence Gladstone his great
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rival marched in the Stiles couldn't
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have differed more William Glasson was a
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populist his power rested with his party
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machine fed by the new electorate mom
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the primary mission of my government
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would be to pacify Ireland if I'm a
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readout bomb my proposed new palette
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Lord Chancellor
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Gladstone had been advised by his wife
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to pet the Queen instead he read her
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lists made speeches and treated her like
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a rubber stamp
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Lord Chancellor mom Lord Hathaway Lord
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President of the Council held gray
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ribbon Lord privy seal at mr.
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she reacted predictably and went into
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retirement again and began writing and
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illustrating a book about her life in
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the highlands in which brown feeds it
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strong
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now as a direct result of the Queen's
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continuing seclusion a much more
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determined four publican movement with
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growing in the country the Marseillaise
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was sung in Trafalgar Square to
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celebrate a new French Republic and a
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pamphlet was published entitled what
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does she do with it asking how the Queen
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used the money voted to her by
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Parliament there was a family conspiracy
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to try to get the Queen back to duty
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Princess Victoria her eldest daughter
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organised a secret round robin to be
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signed by seven of her brothers and
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sisters in the following terms those of
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us who are abroad and only here now and
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then of what's going on in England are
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startled at the murmurs of discontent
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which reaches those of us who live at
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home are the unwilling and grieving
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witnesses of criticism which are
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agonizing to us to hear the dangers
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which are daily spreading will crush the
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monarchy and the dynasty but the letter
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was never delivered
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perhaps they were too frightened
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in 1871 for reasons beyond her control
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Queen Victoria suddenly found herself
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back in favor with the public the Prince
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of Wales had fallen ill with typhoid the
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Queen rushed to his bedside at his home
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in Sandin fear gripped the nation
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because the 14th of December was
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approaching which would have been 10
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years to the day since Prince Albert had
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died of typhoid hidden behind the screen
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so that her son wouldn't see her the
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Queen wrote fearfully December 10th 1871
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the feeling shown by the whole nation is
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quite marvelous and this touching and
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striking and on December the 13th this
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railing has been the worst day of all
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and coming so close to the sad 14th
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field s and I believe the whole country
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with anxious forebodings
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finally on December the 14th this
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dreadful anniversary the temps returned
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again instead it brought the cherry news
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that dear Bertie had slept quietly at
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intervals the respiration much easier
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the whole country breathed a sigh of
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relief on the way to sin pause for a
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Thanksgiving service the show of
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affection amazed the Queen dressed in
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black and wearing only a simple bonnet
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she drove in an open carriage to enable
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the people to see her properly then two
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days later another near tragedy touched
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the Queen as she was alighting from her
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carriage outside Buckingham Palace Brown
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had got down to let down the steps when
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suddenly a semi hit my side then I
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perceived that it was someone aren't
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known with an uplifted count in
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voluntarily in a terrible fright I threw
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myself over Lady Jane church I soon
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recovered myself to stand up and I saw
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Bram holding a I married I claimed who
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was struggling they flipped the ham ham
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dropped something look there it is
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I then did see shining and round a small
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historic this filled us with hard it is
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to would brown to his wonderful presence
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of mind but I've greatly owners safety
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for he alone saw the boy brush rounding
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holiday
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the young man was a Fenian it was the
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sixth attempt on the Queen's life she
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was severely shaken but her prestige in
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the country rocketed in the space of a
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few weeks republicanism was dead the
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royalty problem had been swept away the
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faithful John Brown was awarded the
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Victoria devoted Service Medal
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he's the only recipient of that honor in
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history
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we have a large conservative majority
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change of ministry will take place
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shortly mr. Gladstone is contrived to
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alienate the front it was February 1874
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and Israeli had won the general election
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for the Conservatives at his swearing-in
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the Queen treated him like a long-lost
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friend thirteen years after the death of
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the Prince Consort she was no longer in
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deep despair I saw mr. Disraeli at
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quarter to three today he knelt down and
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kissed him sang I pledged my trust to
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the kindest of instances never the
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sovereign wishes should be done
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the Queen's wishes were simple with
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Disraeli now at her side she needed to
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fulfill her great destiny and that to
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the British people we had the largest
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fleet in the world a professional army
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and vast colonies that were the envy of
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yo
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now that the parliamentary parties had
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finally tempered the British crowns
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power her destiny lay in foreign affairs
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the Empire Israeli too could see sound
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reasons for patriotism the Conservative
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Party would become the party of Empire
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the Empire needed an empress and the
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Queen asked Israelis government to make
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her Empress of India the brightest jewel
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in the imperial crown to mark the
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occasion the Queen sent the Prince of
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Wales out to India to preside over the
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celebrations given in her honor
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the prince became the incarnation of the
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British Raj and was treated everywhere
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like a God missions for the poor were
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open and charity was dispensed in his
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wake he was even given a pair of
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elephants that later appeared at sandia
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my thoughts much taken up with the great
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event at Delhi today where I am being
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proclaimed Empress of India I have for
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the first time today sign to myself as
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VR and I that day the first of January
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1877 she wrote New Year cards one went
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to Disraeli
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bearing her initials VRI Victoria Regina
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at Emperor Asterix another was sent to
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John Brown to my best friend JB from his
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best friend V our eye at about this time
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the Queen also gave Browne a locket
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containing some of her hair and some
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belonging to Prince console emblazoned
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and enormous jewels
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Queen Victoria gave a dinner that night
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here in Windsor Castle the night she
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became Empress of India
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Disraeli made a Florence speech praising
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the Queen and when the Nile toast was
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proposed
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he called out your Imperial Majesty
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whereupon to everyone's amazement the
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Empress rose and did a half curtsy to
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her Prime Minister
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later the Queen had the durbar room
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added at osborne house it looks like an
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indian temple but its architecture is
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rather surprising sitting in the middle
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of the island light the queen was
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mesmerised by india the corridor next to
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the devil room is lined with portraits
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of her Indian subjects as well as
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Maharaja's in their magnificent costumes
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she commissioned pictures of ordinary
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people here we see soldiers a Potter at
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the age of 102 a carpet weaver silk
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spinner coppersmith servants farmers and
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children they represent the close
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affection the Queen Victoria held for
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the people of her subcontinent the Queen
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took her role as mother will be
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empowered seriously a chieftain from the
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Gold Coast digital and asked whether he
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could take back one of her morning
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bonnets to Africa as a ceremonial crime
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almighty Queen give me unknown the right
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to wear it and this asked my successors
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the Queen was happy to oblige
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Disraeli is foreign policy echoed the
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Sultan's grand vision received a box
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from mr. Disraeli with a very important
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news that the government had purchased
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the Viceroy of Egypt shares in the Suez
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Canal for 4 million pounds which gives
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us complete security for India it is
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entirely mr. Disraeli is doing
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it is just settled you have it madam the
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French government has been out
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generalized next day Disraeli with a
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theatrical flourish presented the queen
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with share certificates the Suez Canal
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coup was entirely the doing how mr.
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Disraeli who has very lofty views of the
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positioned country should hold his mind
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so much greater larger so much quicker
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than that of mr. Gladstone and Israeli
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was asked to sit the first Prime
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Minister to do so at a Queen's audience
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since Lord Melbourne 40 years before the
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queen of Six there was a new woman no
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longer eaten up by grief she was working
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harder than she ever worked in her life
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she was immensely popular with her
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people and her armies and they approved
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of her vision of imperial power
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Disraeli may have given her the
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impression she received a permanent
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position overseeing the empire but
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Gladstone had other ideas
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preparing for the fast approaching
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general election in 1880 Gladstone was
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making a series of electrifying speeches
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in his Midlothian constituency and
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elsewhere
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he attacked the colonial wars which had
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done so much for the prestige of the
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Queen and the country pleading for the
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rights of the Savage he denounced the
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title of Empress of India as theatrical
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bombast and folly by appealing directly
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to the nation in this way the Queen
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believed that Gladstone was usurping her
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will but when the Liberal Party won the
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election the Queen was faced with the
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alarming prospect of Gladstone as Prime
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Minister again
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she will sooner abdicate them center
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that half-mad firebrand others but
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herself nice admitted his democratic
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rule but not agree
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there must be no attempt to change the
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foreign policy no change in India and no
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hasty retreat from Afghanistan with
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gladstone in power again the Queen
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became less interested in affairs of
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state when she was spending time at
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Balmoral she often preferred to stay
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here at the glass old her house on Lok
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m'q some miles away from the castle at
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times this house was literally at the
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hub of the Empire it's modest rooms and
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simple furniture really rather humble
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for the Empress of India
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then chemists series of tragic blows
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first her close friend Israeli died in
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April 1881 such a loss is irreparable to
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me in the country to lose such a pillar
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of strength at such a time is dreadful
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then John Brown had to carry the Queen
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back into the castle after a fall at
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Windsor in March 1883 at less than two
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weeks later the dreadful news that my
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good faithful Brown had passed away
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early this morning it is the loss not
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only of a servant but of a real friend
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the shock the blow the blank the
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constant missing at every turn of the
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worm strong powerful arm head almost
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stunned me and I am truly overwhelmed
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and now all is gone all is gone in this
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world and all seems unhinged again in
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thousands of ways such was the status of
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John Brown when he died but wreaths were
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placed on his grave by princesses
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Empress's even he may have been only a
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simple Gilly without education but he
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was the only person in the household who
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could make the Queen do what you didn't
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want when Prince Albert died a statue of
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him was placed on the Balmoral estate it
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faces the one of Queen Victoria
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remarkably enough just about here where
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I'm standing the Queen put another one
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up to John Brown when he died and so the
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three memorials together formed a
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triangle his statue was removed from the
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triangle by King Edward the seventh when
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his mother died and tucked away here in
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the woods the Queen at 65 was lonely but
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still resolute foreign policy remained
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her obsession and here she felt Gadsden
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was it his most neglectful when General
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Gordon was under siege from hostile
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troops in the Sudan she begged Gaston to
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send out a rescue column to Khartoum
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the Queen trembles for general Gordon's
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safety if anything befall him the result
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will be awful six weeks later the Queen
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was still questioning captain's policies
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mr. blanton you told the Queen when we
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last met Gordon must be supported yet
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what he asked for repeatedly nearly five
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weeks ago has been refused not the
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humanity sick for the honor of the
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government and the nation
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when Gordon was murdered nearly a year
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later just before the relief column
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finally arrived the country was an
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uproar now from Osborn the Queen sent a
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telegram to Gladstone it was
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deliberately uncoded for all the world
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to read saying to think that all this
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might have been prevented and many
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precious lives saved by earlier action
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is too frightful his army who have as
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the head of the nation to bear the
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humiliation the Gordon de baak was
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responsible for bringing down the
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Gladstone government but in six months
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Gladstone was back and it was the issue
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of Irish self-government the Home Rule
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bill that did most to divide the country
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and also Gladstone from the sovereign to
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Queen Victoria Home Rule was a threat to
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her empire ignoring her true
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constitutional role the Queen set out in
552
00:28:32,120 --> 00:28:34,790
1886 to disrupt Home Rule by secretly
553
00:28:34,790 --> 00:28:36,410
working with a conservative opposition
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00:28:36,410 --> 00:28:39,170
leader Lord Salisbury she was letting
555
00:28:39,170 --> 00:28:41,570
him see Gladstone's confidential cabinet
556
00:28:41,570 --> 00:28:43,490
papers to the Queen about the bills
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progress may its the Queen sends Lourdes
558
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sauce for the copy of mr. Gladstone's
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letter to her
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there was a very important cabinet
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meeting to decide whether any
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concessions were to be made in the bill
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if they were made they would certainly
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be defeated this is the fast amount of
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defeat please return the enclosed May
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10th the Queen sends mr. Gladstone
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second letter received last night which
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she would also ask to have back
569
00:29:18,499 --> 00:29:21,480
the Queen was at Balmoral when the final
570
00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:24,690
vote on home rule was taken but division
571
00:29:24,690 --> 00:29:27,210
within Gladstone zone party was making
572
00:29:27,210 --> 00:29:31,249
the bills progress increasingly unlikely
573
00:29:31,309 --> 00:29:34,740
did not sleep well as I felt worried and
574
00:29:34,740 --> 00:29:38,940
anxious when I got up a telegram was
575
00:29:38,940 --> 00:29:40,740
brought to me which gave the news that
576
00:29:40,740 --> 00:29:42,659
the government had been defeated by a
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00:29:42,659 --> 00:29:46,259
majority of 30 cannot help feeling
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00:29:46,259 --> 00:29:48,809
relieved and think it is the best for
579
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the interests of the country
580
00:29:55,650 --> 00:29:58,480
more than 30 years earlier and the
581
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halcyon summer days at Osborn the Royal
582
00:30:01,270 --> 00:30:03,250
children gave a regular afternoon tea
583
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party and the swiss cottage for their
584
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parents the Queen and Prince Albert
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00:30:12,820 --> 00:30:15,880
here in the children's own Playhouse the
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Prince Consort conceived the grandiose
587
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scheme for his family his plan was to
588
00:30:21,159 --> 00:30:23,679
marry the family into royal houses on
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the continent his aim is to achieve
590
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peace and influence in Europe
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and here you can see demonstrated the
592
00:30:32,809 --> 00:30:35,480
Prince Consort greatest vision this
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00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:37,580
famous photograph was taken by Queen
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Victoria went to Coburg to attend a
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family wedding over 30 years later in
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1894
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there are cousins from Russia here's the
598
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Tsar Germany the Kaiser Romania as well
599
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as connections with Spain and with
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Greece and Denmark
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my great-grandfather King up at the 7th
602
00:31:00,830 --> 00:31:04,370
to be all these people are related to
603
00:31:04,370 --> 00:31:07,460
Queen Victoria but closer analysis of
604
00:31:07,460 --> 00:31:10,250
the picture shows how the dream was
605
00:31:10,250 --> 00:31:13,700
about to shatter first he be married was
606
00:31:13,700 --> 00:31:16,490
Princess Victoria Vicky Prince Albert's
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eldest and favorite daughter at 17 she
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00:31:19,519 --> 00:31:22,389
married Prince Frederick of Prussia the
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00:31:22,389 --> 00:31:24,769
Prince Consort hoped that through this
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marriage the belligerent prussian
611
00:31:26,630 --> 00:31:28,429
descendancy would be tempered by a
612
00:31:28,429 --> 00:31:31,669
liberal constitutional monarchy instead
613
00:31:31,669 --> 00:31:33,830
the worst happened and the couple
614
00:31:33,830 --> 00:31:36,649
produced a son Kaiser William sitting
615
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here with the wax moustaches he was the
616
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Queen's German grandson and it was he
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00:31:42,409 --> 00:31:44,330
who led his armies against Britain in
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the First World War
619
00:31:45,649 --> 00:31:49,519
please advise me how to say we would
620
00:31:49,519 --> 00:31:52,700
like to send a letter to the Viceroy
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00:31:52,700 --> 00:31:58,850
come Viceroy go home Viceroy go big cut
622
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it cut cut Your Majesty
623
00:32:02,690 --> 00:32:04,880
the sovereign began to learn Hindustani
624
00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:06,799
so she could deal with indian affairs of
625
00:32:06,799 --> 00:32:09,139
state suddenly another strange figure
626
00:32:09,139 --> 00:32:12,860
came into the Queen's life and helped to
627
00:32:12,860 --> 00:32:16,220
send a telegram to the Viceroy home
628
00:32:16,220 --> 00:32:19,639
Viceroy cool Abdul Karim was engaged as
629
00:32:19,639 --> 00:32:22,549
a teacher and Indian secretary forever
630
00:32:22,549 --> 00:32:25,039
at her side he now took the place of his
631
00:32:25,039 --> 00:32:32,690
own brow abdul karim known as the
632
00:32:32,690 --> 00:32:35,029
Munchie or teacher was disliked by the
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00:32:35,029 --> 00:32:38,350
court as much as bran
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in early 1894 the Queen's LDAP restrict
635
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Gladstone finally came to hand in his
636
00:32:45,620 --> 00:32:49,190
resignation he was 85 10 years older
637
00:32:49,190 --> 00:32:52,130
than the Queen both had such poor
638
00:32:52,130 --> 00:32:53,870
eyesight they could scarcely see each
639
00:32:53,870 --> 00:32:57,410
other and although gladsome had served
640
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the Queen as her prime minister a record
641
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four times at his final audience the
642
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Queen uttered not a word of that
643
00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:07,940
she had much difficulty in finding
644
00:33:07,940 --> 00:33:11,450
topics for an adequate prolongation but
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00:33:11,450 --> 00:33:14,030
fog and rain and a coming journey to it
646
00:33:14,030 --> 00:33:17,210
all did that duty and hoped she was at
647
00:33:17,210 --> 00:33:21,050
the highest point of her cheerfulness in
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a miserable day outside again today mr.
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00:33:23,870 --> 00:33:30,110
Johnston my journey to Italy shortly
650
00:33:30,110 --> 00:33:33,340
should be very good for my health and
651
00:33:33,340 --> 00:33:37,630
for the sake of the country
652
00:33:40,089 --> 00:33:42,499
Gladstone's great power had come with
653
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the birth of the nation's first modern
654
00:33:44,450 --> 00:33:47,479
party democracy it had made the two of
655
00:33:47,479 --> 00:33:49,549
them needless rivals for the country's
656
00:33:49,549 --> 00:33:52,609
affection with Gladstone's passing the
657
00:33:52,609 --> 00:33:54,710
Queen was at last prepared to assume a
658
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role of prestige and influence rather
659
00:33:57,019 --> 00:33:59,539
than power a pattern followed by
660
00:33:59,539 --> 00:34:06,200
sovereigns ever since in June 1897 the
661
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60th anniversary of the Queen's
662
00:34:07,940 --> 00:34:10,190
accession the might of the British
663
00:34:10,190 --> 00:34:12,949
Empire was on parade in London the
664
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Queen's Diamond Jubilee here the Queen
665
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had no need to exert her power over
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difficult politician as mother of the
667
00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:23,000
Empire her influence was there for all
668
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:26,000
to see and she was clearly moved by the
669
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occasion and never to be forgotten day
670
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no one ever I believe has met with such
671
00:34:32,690 --> 00:34:35,599
an ovation which was given me passing
672
00:34:35,599 --> 00:34:38,210
through those six miles of streets the
673
00:34:38,210 --> 00:34:41,029
crowd was quite indescribable and their
674
00:34:41,029 --> 00:34:43,819
enthusiasm truly marvelous and deeply
675
00:34:43,819 --> 00:34:46,730
touching every face seemed to be filled
676
00:34:46,730 --> 00:34:50,199
with real joy I was much moved and
677
00:34:50,199 --> 00:34:55,339
gratified surrounded by a mounted escort
678
00:34:55,339 --> 00:34:58,339
of various members of her family from
679
00:34:58,339 --> 00:34:59,480
all over the world
680
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Queen Victoria arrived in her carriage
681
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as some Paul's Cathedral she was too
682
00:35:05,450 --> 00:35:07,849
arthritic to go up the steps so a
683
00:35:07,849 --> 00:35:10,819
special service was held outside with
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the Queen sitting here in her carriage
685
00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:16,930
at the bottom
686
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that day for the first time the Queen
687
00:35:42,259 --> 00:35:44,509
used Telegraph to send her Jubilee
688
00:35:44,509 --> 00:35:47,749
message around the Empire from my heart
689
00:35:47,749 --> 00:35:51,380
I thanked my beloved people may God
690
00:35:51,380 --> 00:35:55,490
bless them eighty years old her eyesight
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00:35:55,490 --> 00:35:57,950
failing the Queen still had one more
692
00:35:57,950 --> 00:36:00,380
service to perform with the outbreak of
693
00:36:00,380 --> 00:36:03,349
the Boer War in 1899 in South Africa she
694
00:36:03,349 --> 00:36:05,960
found a new lease of life rallying the
695
00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:09,319
nation after a string of defeats staring
696
00:36:09,319 --> 00:36:11,059
memos were dispatched to her government
697
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and to her commanders I sincerely hope
698
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that the increased taxation necessary to
699
00:36:18,289 --> 00:36:20,630
meet the expenses of the war will not
700
00:36:20,630 --> 00:36:24,589
fall upon the working classes the
701
00:36:24,589 --> 00:36:27,019
attempted relief of lady Smith would
702
00:36:27,019 --> 00:36:29,509
have succeeded had we had more troops
703
00:36:29,509 --> 00:36:32,539
read tapings and useless difficulties
704
00:36:32,539 --> 00:36:36,619
must not be regarded would not
705
00:36:36,619 --> 00:36:39,380
corrugated iron Hut's be used instead of
706
00:36:39,380 --> 00:36:41,829
tents
707
00:36:41,900 --> 00:36:44,780
it is quite imperative that Lord Roberts
708
00:36:44,780 --> 00:36:47,480
should not move until he has plenty of
709
00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:51,800
troops pray impress this on please let
710
00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:54,140
me know what steps you intend to take to
711
00:36:54,140 --> 00:36:56,870
protect the Zulus from being attacked by
712
00:36:56,870 --> 00:36:59,750
the Boers we are bound in honor to stand
713
00:36:59,750 --> 00:37:03,860
by my native subject the Queen
714
00:37:03,860 --> 00:37:05,870
dispatched a hundred thousand tins of
715
00:37:05,870 --> 00:37:08,030
chocolate to the men at the front which
716
00:37:08,030 --> 00:37:12,070
promptly melted in the African Sun a
717
00:37:12,070 --> 00:37:15,560
period in December 1899 became known as
718
00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:18,440
black week after three major defeats of
719
00:37:18,440 --> 00:37:22,160
the British Army but Windsor the Queen
720
00:37:22,160 --> 00:37:23,630
rose to the occasion
721
00:37:23,630 --> 00:37:25,730
telling the Foreign Secretary please
722
00:37:25,730 --> 00:37:28,040
understand there is no undepressed in
723
00:37:28,040 --> 00:37:31,100
this house we are not interested in the
724
00:37:31,100 --> 00:37:34,610
possibilities of defeat they did not
725
00:37:34,610 --> 00:37:41,870
exist but black week coincided with the
726
00:37:41,870 --> 00:37:43,580
anniversary of the death of Prince
727
00:37:43,580 --> 00:37:45,980
Albert and privately the Queen showed
728
00:37:45,980 --> 00:37:48,140
her real feelings when she visited the
729
00:37:48,140 --> 00:37:52,730
mausoleum at Frogmore already 38 years
730
00:37:52,730 --> 00:37:54,920
since the dreadful catastrophe which
731
00:37:54,920 --> 00:37:58,160
crushed and changed my life and deprived
732
00:37:58,160 --> 00:38:02,360
me of my guardian angel feel very low
733
00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:08,450
and anxious about the war by Christmas
734
00:38:08,450 --> 00:38:11,870
1900 the Queen was not well she was
735
00:38:11,870 --> 00:38:16,090
sleeping badly eating nothing
736
00:38:16,539 --> 00:38:19,430
on Christmas Eve she came down to the
737
00:38:19,430 --> 00:38:21,200
durbar roma cause born to see the
738
00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:23,630
distribution of presents but could only
739
00:38:23,630 --> 00:38:26,630
write I felt very melancholy because I
740
00:38:26,630 --> 00:38:29,809
see so badly I gave all my personal
741
00:38:29,809 --> 00:38:33,410
servants their usual presents I took a
742
00:38:33,410 --> 00:38:38,750
little sufferer in my room on January
743
00:38:38,750 --> 00:38:42,500
13th 1901 the Queen's Journal the diary
744
00:38:42,500 --> 00:38:45,079
she had written for 69 years finally
745
00:38:45,079 --> 00:38:48,859
came to an end with out before 1:00 in
746
00:38:48,859 --> 00:38:53,150
the garden chair luncheon and Beatrice
747
00:38:53,150 --> 00:38:54,700
going with me
748
00:38:54,700 --> 00:38:59,079
rested afterwards then did some signing
749
00:38:59,079 --> 00:39:02,390
the Queen was taken ill and she slowly
750
00:39:02,390 --> 00:39:05,119
began to sink from all over the country
751
00:39:05,119 --> 00:39:07,279
and from Europe members of her family
752
00:39:07,279 --> 00:39:10,880
began to assemble at Osborne house the
753
00:39:10,880 --> 00:39:13,329
Queen lingered on for ten days and
754
00:39:13,329 --> 00:39:17,410
finally on the 22nd of January 1901
755
00:39:17,410 --> 00:39:19,309
learning that the end was near
756
00:39:19,309 --> 00:39:25,640
they began gathering at her bedside Sir
757
00:39:25,640 --> 00:39:28,220
James read the Queen's doctor at her
758
00:39:28,220 --> 00:39:31,819
deathbed later wrote all the family was
759
00:39:31,819 --> 00:39:33,829
summoned and the Bishop of Winchester
760
00:39:33,829 --> 00:39:37,099
said prayers for the dying while I kept
761
00:39:37,099 --> 00:39:43,099
plying her with oxygen princesses
762
00:39:43,099 --> 00:39:45,950
Christian Louise and Beatrice kept
763
00:39:45,950 --> 00:39:48,289
mentioning each other's names the Queen
764
00:39:48,289 --> 00:39:51,650
for long too blind to see my path but
765
00:39:51,650 --> 00:39:55,180
now lead thou me on
766
00:39:59,500 --> 00:40:07,210
dear mama is Beatrice luncheon is closed
767
00:40:07,210 --> 00:40:09,540
too
768
00:40:17,620 --> 00:40:23,280
it's luncheon you're not alone
769
00:40:33,700 --> 00:40:37,030
it's Bertie
770
00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:48,710
the Kaiser remained the whole time on
771
00:40:48,710 --> 00:40:51,140
the opposite side to me the Queen kept
772
00:40:51,140 --> 00:40:54,080
looking at me and frequently gasped sir
773
00:40:54,080 --> 00:40:59,210
James I'm very ill a few minutes before
774
00:40:59,210 --> 00:41:01,760
she died that eyes turned fixedly to the
775
00:41:01,760 --> 00:41:03,650
right and gazed on the picture of Christ
776
00:41:03,650 --> 00:41:06,260
in the entombment of Christ over the
777
00:41:06,260 --> 00:41:12,950
fireplace she died with my arm round her
778
00:41:12,950 --> 00:41:16,850
I gently removed it led her down the
779
00:41:16,850 --> 00:41:21,650
pillar and kissed her hand when she died
780
00:41:21,650 --> 00:41:24,260
at 6:30 I had for the last hour been
781
00:41:24,260 --> 00:41:26,780
kneeling at the right side supporting
782
00:41:26,780 --> 00:41:29,870
her in a semi upright position helped by
783
00:41:29,870 --> 00:41:31,910
the kaiser note on the opposite side of
784
00:41:31,910 --> 00:41:34,420
the bed
785
00:41:34,839 --> 00:41:37,529
the Queen wanted a white funeral a
786
00:41:37,529 --> 00:41:40,089
picture of her was painted at Osborne
787
00:41:40,089 --> 00:41:42,400
looking serene in her final sleep
788
00:41:42,400 --> 00:41:45,689
dressed in white
789
00:41:47,430 --> 00:41:49,920
the death of Queen Victoria marked the
790
00:41:49,920 --> 00:41:51,809
end of one of the greatest eras in the
791
00:41:51,809 --> 00:41:54,480
history of this country but there was
792
00:41:54,480 --> 00:41:57,029
one final twist she had left the secret
793
00:41:57,029 --> 00:41:59,069
list of keepsakes that she wanted placed
794
00:41:59,069 --> 00:42:00,029
in her coffin
795
00:42:00,029 --> 00:42:02,369
some of malbert and the children but
796
00:42:02,369 --> 00:42:04,740
there were others too she ordered Sir
797
00:42:04,740 --> 00:42:07,289
James read her doctor to hide them from
798
00:42:07,289 --> 00:42:13,200
everyone Sir James called in members of
799
00:42:13,200 --> 00:42:17,309
the family to see her and Princess
800
00:42:17,309 --> 00:42:20,430
Alexandra was the last and she arranged
801
00:42:20,430 --> 00:42:24,359
white flowers if so she looked beautiful
802
00:42:24,359 --> 00:42:28,260
and then they all left and he put a
803
00:42:28,260 --> 00:42:32,069
photograph of John Brown in her left
804
00:42:32,069 --> 00:42:37,140
hand as per instructions and a lock of
805
00:42:37,140 --> 00:42:40,020
his hair which he wrapped up in tissue
806
00:42:40,020 --> 00:42:42,930
paper and then he covered her up with
807
00:42:42,930 --> 00:42:46,260
the white flowers which Queen Alexandra
808
00:42:46,260 --> 00:42:50,730
had put there and then he called in the
809
00:42:50,730 --> 00:42:52,619
rest of the members of the household to
810
00:42:52,619 --> 00:42:54,839
come do you think that the Queen
811
00:42:54,839 --> 00:42:57,059
Victoria's children were aware of some
812
00:42:57,059 --> 00:42:58,950
of the things that she'd been asked to
813
00:42:58,950 --> 00:43:01,670
have placed in her coffin no earned only
814
00:43:01,670 --> 00:43:05,160
maids and dresses and Sir James who did
815
00:43:05,160 --> 00:43:08,849
the arranging himself here they were for
816
00:43:08,849 --> 00:43:10,890
the first time these instructions they'd
817
00:43:10,890 --> 00:43:14,460
only been seen by Sir James and there's
818
00:43:14,460 --> 00:43:17,119
few dresses
819
00:43:24,740 --> 00:43:29,160
on a cold winter's day Queen Victoria
820
00:43:29,160 --> 00:43:31,470
was finally buried in the Frogmore
821
00:43:31,470 --> 00:43:35,100
mausoleum in death she was at last
822
00:43:35,100 --> 00:43:38,100
reunited with the Prince Consort the man
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she'd always be in so devotedly the
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solitary statue of Prince Albert on his
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tomb was joined by one of the Queen
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ahead half turned towards him the Queen
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statue been carved years earlier when
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the Prince died so that you always
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remain in the likeness of a young
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inscribed above the door of the
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mausoleum in Latin are these words by
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Queen Victoria
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farewell best beloved here at last I
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shall rest with thee with thee in Christ
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I shall rise again when the burial was
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over it began to snow the Queen had got
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her white funeral
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the tragic story of the last Tsar on
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Zarina of Russia is remembered tomorrow
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Nicholas and Alexandra that's at the
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same time coming up in a few minutes on
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UK history gaze upon the face of
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Tutankhamun
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you
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