Queen Victoria
Queen Victoria
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ngs, to which the unfortunate Princess
was subjected, were an error; he drew the Prince aside, and begged him to
communicate this opinion to the English doctors; but it was useless. The
fashionable lowering treatment was continued for months. On November 5, at
nine o'clock in the evening, after a labour of over fifty hours, the Princess
was delivered of a dead boy. At midnight her exhausted strength gave way.
When, at last, Stockmar consented to see her; he went in, and found her
obviously dying, while the doctors were plying her with wine. She seized his
hand and pressed it. "They have made me tipsy," she said. After a little he
left her, and was already in the next room when he heard her call out in her
loud voice: "Stocky! Stocky!" As he ran back the death-rattle was in her
throat. She tossed herself violently from side to side; then suddenly drew up
her legs, and it was over.
The Prince, after hours of watching, had left the room for a few moments' rest; and Stockmar had now to tell him that his wife w
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This is an almost perfect biography—in a small volume it gives the essentials of Victoria's life in a most agreeable prose style. It is not an academic biography which attempts to cover everything in detail, but a charming, well-written general biography that is an absolute delight to read.
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