The Princess Alice on her Position
Thirty-nine years of not enviable reign, if it were not for the sake of the services which one can render one's country and the world in general. Private individuals are naturally much better off; our privileges contain more duties than advantages, and their nonexistence would be no privation in comparison with the enormous gain of being ©ne's own master, and on the same footing with other people, and of being able to know men and the world as they are, and not only as they choose to show themselves to us in order to please us.— Letter from Princess Alice to Queen Victoria,
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Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 40, 8 March 1884, Page 5
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109The Princess Alice on her Position Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 40, 8 March 1884, Page 5
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