Queen Victoria, Her Girlhood and Womanhood
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By Grace Greenwood
16 Apr, 2019
It seems to me that the life of Queen Victoria cannot well be told without a prefacing sketch of her cousin, Princess Charlotte, who had she lived, would have been her Queen, and who was in many respects her prototype. It is certain, I think, that Ch
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It seems to me that the life of Queen Victoria cannot well be told without a prefacing sketch of her cousin, Princess Charlotte, who had she lived, would have been her Queen, and who was in many respects her prototype. It is certain, I think, that Charlotte Augusta of Wales, that lovely miracle-flower of a loveless marriage, blooming into a noble and gracious womanhood, amid the petty strifes and disgraceful intrigues of a corrupt Court, by her virtues and graces, by her high spirit and frank and fearless character, prepared the way in the loyal hearts of the British people, for the fair young kinswoman, who, twenty-one years after her own sad death, reigned in her stead. Through all the bright life of Princess Charlotte - from her beautiful childhood to her no less beautiful maturity - the English people had regarded her proudly and lovingly as their sovereign, who was to be; they had patience with the melancholy madness of the poor old King, her grandfather, and with the scandalous irregularities of the Prince Regent, her father, is looking forward to happier and better things under a good woman's reign; and after all those fair hopes had been confined with her and buried in darkness and silence, their hearts naturally turned to the royal little girl, who might possibly fill the place left so drearily vacant. England had always been happy and prosperous under Queens, and a Queen, please God, they would yet have.
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