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Family life
I need not tell you that since we left, all my thoughts have been with you at Windsor, and that your image fills my whole soul. Even in my dreams I never imagined that I should find so much love on earth …
Letter from Prince Albert to Queen Victoria, 15 November 1839
The Royal Archives contains a multitude of letters, journals and documents which shed light on the lives and experiences of members of the royal family over the last three hundred years.
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Letter from George, Duke of York, to his wife, May, describing the wedding of his cousins Tsar Nicholas II and Princess Alix of Hesse in St Petersburg, 26 November 1894
RA QM/PRIV/CC1/93
