QUEEN VICTORIA’S LETTERS

Hokitika Guardian, 23 June 1932, Page 8

QUEEN VICTORIA’S LETTERS

TRIBUTES AND REPORTS

LONDON, June 12,

Charming tributes to the present King and Queen and reproofs against the 'ex-Kaiser’s conceit and impetuosity, are features of the' final volumes of Queen Victoria’s edited by G. E. Buckle, and covering the iast five years of her reign.

'They reveal that the aged Queen was beset with anxieties and struggling against increasing infirmites. Writing, in 1897, she said": “Every time I see Georgie and May I love and like them more', and respect them greatly. Thank God, Georgie has such an excellent useful, good wife.” 1 Queen 'Victoria describes, “Dear little David,” now the Prince of Wales, at two years old, as “a most attractive little hoy, so forward and clever. He always tries to pull me out of my chair at lunch time,” she writes, “saying ‘get up gangan,’'then to one of the Indian servants, ‘man, pud it!’ which makes us laugh.” The ex-Kaiser appears thoroughout the letters as the villain of the piece. It is. revealed that when Wilhelm sent the famous Kruger telegram, the Prince of Wales wanted to give him a good snub, hut Queen Victoria declared that Wilhelm’s faults were due to impetuousness -and conceit, and that calmness and firmness were the best ,wnv of dealing with him.