vrijdag 6 januari 2012

Charlotte Bronte's comment on the visit of Queen Victoria to Brussels


Read the comment from Charlotte Bronte on: 
thebrusselsbrontegroup/leopoldqueenvictoria

You ask about Queen Victoria's visit to Brussels. I saw her for an instant flashing through the Rue Royale in a carriage and six, surrounded by soldiers. She was laughing and talking very gaily. She looked a little stout, vivacious lady, very plainly dressed, not much dignity or pretension about her. The Belgians liked her very well on the whole. They said she enlivened the sombre court of King Leopold, which is usually as gloomy as a conventicle.

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