VICTORIAN ERA MEMOIRS.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19149, 4 November 1927, Page 11

VICTORIAN ERA MEMOIRS.

SUPPRESSED PASSAGES PUBLISHED,

(bt cable—press association— COPTBIOHT.) (AUSTBALIAH AND H.Z. CABLE ASSOCUtIOK.) (Received November 3rd, 11.40 p.m.) LONDON, November 3. A literary sensation has been' - caused by the publication of suppressed passages of Sir Algernon Greville's memoirs, which aroused Queen Victoria's indignation at the time of the 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 meannesses of George IV. and William IV., on which the writer is illuminating. A curious revelation concerns the relations of the young Queen with her mother, the Duchess of Kent, who, CJrevLlle suggests, was the,. lover of Sir John Conroy, an Irish adventurer, who was private secretary to the Duchess. / Queen Victoria suspected her mother's liaison, whioh she regarded as a personal humiliation and, after her accession to the throne there was an open break between the Queen and the Duchess owing to Sir John Conroy.