[To the bishop who suggested the widowed queen now consider herself 'as married to Christ':] That's what I call twaddle!
Queen VictoriaI positively think that ladies who are always enceinte quite disgusting; it is more like a rabbit or guinea-pig than anything else and really it is not very nice.
Queen VictoriaI would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
Queen VictoriaThe 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.
Queen Victoria