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DAYS LIKE THESE 31 july 1900
Independent, The (London), Jul 31, 2002 by IAN IRVINE
Queen Victoria writes in her journal: "A terrible day! When I had hardly finished dressing Lenchen and Beatrice knocked at the door and came in. I at once asked whether there were any news, and Lenchen replied, `Yes, bad news, very bad news; he has slept away!' Oh God! My poor darling Alfie [Prince Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, aged 56] gone too! My third grown-up child, besides three very dear sons-in-law.
It is hard at eighty- one! It is so merciful that Alfie died in his sleep without any struggle, but it is heart-rending. It is a horrible year, nothing but sadness and horrors of one kind and another. It has come as an awful shock. Recollections of dear Alfie's childhood and youth crowded in upon me. People are so dreadfully shocked, and the Navy feels it deeply, for he was much beloved in the service, having been such an excellent officer. Quantities of telegrams kept pouring in, and the day was spent in answering them. We dined again alone, and later Beatrice read to me in my room out of some of my favourite religious books, which was soothing."
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