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‘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…
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:…
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