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For Valentine’s Day, here is a beautiful extract from a letter which
Princess Alice wrote to Queen Victoria a few weeks after her marriage:
"If I say I love my dear husband, that is scarcely enough – it is a love and
esteem which increases daily, hourly; which he also shows to me by such
consideration, such tender, loving ways. What was life before, to what it has
become now? There is such a blessed peace being at his side, being his wife;
there is such a feeling of security; and we two have a world of our own when we
are together, which nothing can intrude upon. My lot is indeed a
blessed one; and yet what have I done to deserve that warm, ardent love which my
darling Louis ever shows me? I admire his good and noble heart more than I can
say...This morning I breakfasted alone as he went out with his regiment. I
always feel quite impatient until I hear his steps coming upstairs and see his
face when he returns...”
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