Imagine a love affair so great that it lasts for 40 years after the death of your beloved and that you are so grieved that you will wear black for the rest of your life...you can read about it hereAnd that you build a monument like this one to the memory of your beloved husband...
Albert is grand and gilded, and sits very very high...he is robust and looks rather solemn and wise...
On the four corners of this immense edifice lie statuary dedicated to the four corners of the world...
Wow!!
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Very nice... and monumental too. There was a quieter love in the monarch's life.
Because there's John Brown, humble Scot servant, who was with her for decades. I was in Crathie Scotland, near Balmoral Castle, and the vicar took me to see Brown's grave. He showed me the little church house looking over the wall and said that Victoria came to that one wee window and wept, overlooking the grave - every day for a year (other windows in the manse were closed in for her privacy).
I saw the gravestone (took photos too) On his death Queen Victoria paid him the tribute (on his stone).
'Friend more than Servant, Loyal, Truthful, Brave
Self less than Duty, even to the Grave'
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