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21 AUGUST 1862
Independent, The (London), Aug 21, 2008
Days like these
QUEEN VICTORIA writes in her diary: "At eleven o'clock started off in the little pony-chair... I actually drove in the little carriage to the very top, turning off and following the track. Grant and Duncan pushed the carriage behind... The view was so fine, the day so bright, and the heather so beautifully pink - but no pleasure, no joy! all dead!
And here at the top is the foundation of the cairn to be erected to my precious Albert, which will be seen all down the valley. I and my poor six orphans all placed stones on it, and our initials, and those of the three absent ones, are to be carved on stones all round it. I felt very shaky and nervous. It is to be thirty-five feet high, and this inscription is to be placed on it: To the beloved memory of Albert, The Great And Good Prince Consort, raised by his broken hearted widow, Victoria R."
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