The Princess Alice on her Position.
Thirty-nine years of not enviable reign, if it were not for the sake of the services which one can render one's country and the wotlji in general. Private individuals are naturally much better ofT; our privileges contain more duties than advantages, and their nonexistence would be no privation in comparison with the enormous gain of being one's own master, and on the same footing with other people, and of being able to know men and the world as they are, and not only as they choose to show themselves to us in order to please m.-Letter from, /'ri.ctia Alice to Qmeii Victoria.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 4292, 23 February 1884, Page 7 (Supplement)
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108The Princess Alice on her Position. Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 4292, 23 February 1884, Page 7 (Supplement)
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