Since it has pleased Providence to place me in this station, I shall do my utmost to fulfil my duty towards my country; I am very young and perhaps in many, though not in all things, inexperienced, but I am sure that very few have more real good will and more real desire to do what is fit and right than I have.

[To the bishop who suggested the widowed queen now consider herself 'as married to Christ':] That's what I call twaddle!

He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.

The poor fatherless baby of eight months is now the utterly broken-hearted and crushed widow of forty-two! My life as a happy one is ended! the world is gone for me! If I must live on (and I will do nothing to make me worse than I am), it is henceforth for our poor fatherless children - for my unhappy country, which has lost all in losing him - and in only doing what I know and feel he would wish.

[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and ... it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.

Bring me a cup of tea and the 'Times.'

I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.