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Royal Letter: 13 June 1865
This royal letter is Queen Victoria writing to her son Bertie, the Prince of Wales, about the names he has picked for his new baby. She is not impressed.
Royal Letter: 14 October 1867
This royal letter is a journal entry in which Queen Victoria hears of a reported Fenian plot to seize her. She calls the idea foolish.
Royal Letter: 16 December 1867
This royal letter is Queen Victoria scolding the Foreign Secretary, Lord Stanley, for sending dispatches before she has approved them.
Royal Letter: 16 October 1866
This royal letter is Queen Victoria to the Prince of Wales about his wish to visit St Petersburg for the wedding of Princess Dagmar, his wife Alix's sister.
Royal Letter: 19 December 1867
This royal letter is from General Grey to Queen Victoria, laying out the full extent of the threats against her. Lord Derby's own warning follows in the same text.
Royal Letter: 21 May 1865
This royal letter is Mary Lincoln's reply to Queen Victoria's condolences. It is brief and grateful.
Royal Letter: 22 January 1866
This royal letter is Queen Victoria to the Prime Minister, Earl Russell, agreeing to open Parliament but protesting bitterly about it. She compares the ceremony to an execution.
Royal Letter: 22 May 1867
This royal letter is Queen Victoria's birthday note to Bertie, sent with the insignia of the Order of the Thistle. It also hands out honours to other relatives.
Royal Letter: 26 June 1867
This royal letter is Queen Victoria complaining to Lord Charles FitzRoy that people are trying to stop her servant John Brown from attending her at a review in Hyde Park.
Royal Letter: 27 April 1865
This royal letter is from Queen Victoria to her uncle Leopold, King of the Belgians, written while he was ill. She thanks him for writing when weak and pleads with him to follow his doctors.
Royal Letter: 29 April 1865
This royal letter is Queen Victoria's condolence note to Mary Todd Lincoln after her husband's assassination. Victoria writes as one widow to another.
Royal Letter: 6 February 1866
This royal letter is an extract from Queen Victoria's journal describing the day she opened Parliament, the ordeal she dreaded in her letter to Earl Russell.
Royal Letters
Royal Letters are 12 pieces of Queen Victoria's correspondence that Jacob and Evie Frye pick up in Westminster, mostly around Buckingham Palace. They mix her journal entries with letters to and from family, politicians and Mary Todd Lincoln, and collecting all of them unlocks A Life in Letters.