LATE QUEEN VICTORIA

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 17 June 1932, Page 2

LATE QUEEN VICTORIA

NEW VOLUME OF LETTERS INTIMATE FAMILY MATTERS LONDON, oth June. Charming tributes to the present King and Queen and reproofs against the ex-Kaiser’s conceit and impetuosity, are features of the final volumes of Queen Victoria's letters, edited by G. E. Buckle, and covering the last five years of her reign. They reveal that the aged Queen was beset with anxieties and struggling against increasing infirmities. Writing in 1897, she said:— “Every time I see Geovgie and Mary, I love and like them more, and respect them greatly. Thank God Geovgie lias stieli an excellent, useful, good wife.” Queen Victoria describes “Dear little David,” now Prince of Wales, at two years old, as “a most attractive little imv, so forward and clever. He always tries to pull me out of my chair at lunch time,” she writes, “saying ‘et up gangan/ then to one of the Indian servants ‘man, pull it!’ which makes us laugh.” The ex Kaiser appears throughout the letters as the villain of the piece. it is revealed that when Wilhelm sent the famous Kruger telegram, the Prince of Wales wanted to give him a good snub, but Queen Victoria declared that Wilhelm’s faults were due to impetuousness and conceit, and that calmness and firmness were the best way of dealing with him.