Excerpt from Princess Feodore's letter to Queen Victoria, year 1843

Source:

The letters of Queen Victoria: a selection from Her Majesty's correspondence between the years 1831 and 1861: published by authority of His Majesty the King, edited by Arthur Christopher Benson and Viscount Reginald Baliol Brett Esher, 1907

https://archive.org/details/lettersofqueenvi01victuoft/page/18/mode/2up

Above: Feodore of Leiningen, lithograph by Thomas Fairland.

Above: Queen Victoria, lithograph by James Posselwhite.

The letter excerpt:

... Späth wished me to thank you for the coronation print, as she could not write to you or Albert now, she says! why, I don't see. There certainly never was such devotedness as hers, to all our family, although it sometimes shows itself rather foolishly — with you it always was a sort of idolatry, when she used to go upon her knees before you, when you were a child. She and poor old Louis did all they could to spoil you, if Lehzen had not prevented and scolded them nicely sometimes; it was quite amusing.

Note: Späth = Baroness Späth, lady-in-waiting to Duchess Victoria of Kent, the mother of Feodore and Victoria.