WHEN VICTORIA RULED

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19989, 4 November 1927, Page 7

WHEN VICTORIA RULED

INTERESTING MEMOIRS MOTHER’S RELATIONS WITH IRISH ADVENTURER Received Nov. 4, 1.10 a.m. (A. & N.Z. LONDON, Nov. 3. A literary sensation has been caused by the publication of the suppressed passages Qf Greville’s memoirs, whicn aroused Queen Victoria’s indignation at the time of their original publication in 1874. The suppressed passages do not reflect upon Queen Victoria’s personal character—indeed the purity of her life and Court gains by contrast with the vices and meanness of George IV. and William IV., on which Greville is illuminating. Curious revelations concern the relatives of the young Queen with her mother, Duchess of Kent, who, Greville suggests, was the lover of Sir John Conroy, an Irish adventurer who was private secretary of the Duchess. Queen Victoria, he says, suspected her mother’s liaison, which she regarded as a personal humiliation, and after her accession to the Throne there was an open break between the Queen and the Duchess.