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
Above: Princess Victoria of Kent, future Queen of the United Kingdom and Ireland, artist unknown.
Above: Leopold, King of the Belgians, lithograph by Luigi Calamatta.
The letter:
28th April 1837.
MY MOST BELOVED UNCLE, — .... Sir Henry Hardinge's motion was quite lost, I am happy to say, and don't you think, dearest Uncle, that it has almost done good, as it proves that the Tories have lost all chance of getting in? It was a trial of strength, and the Ministry have triumphed. I have been reading in the papers, what I suppose you already know, that it is believed that the Lords will pass the Irish Corporation Bill; and also that Ministers mean to drop for the present the question about Church Rates, as the Radicals, being angry with Ministers relative to the Canada business, would not support them well.
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