Connect with us

Entertainment

‘I couldn’t fight back the tears’: how the royals grieve in private – Sydney Morning Herald

Queen Elizabeth might be reeling from Prince Philip’s death. But she has enviable methods for processing loss, say historians, that run in the royal family, and…

Published

on

Article feature image

It was one of thousands of letters she wrote, to both people she knew and those, like Mary Todd Lincoln, whom she didnt.
The instinct to express emotions on paper ran in the immediate family.
Queen Victorias eldest daughter, Princess Victoria, wrote a 39-page letter expressing her grief to her mother on the death of her sister, Princess Alice of Hesse, in 1878. And Queen Victorias grandson, Prince George (later George V), wrote of the 1892 death of his older brother, Prince Albert Victor, at 28:…

Click here to view the original article.

Continue Reading
Advertisement
Advertisement

Trending