Queen Victoria’s diary, 1852

We dined at a quarter-past six o’clock in morning gowns, (not ordinary ones, but such as are worn at a “breakfast,”) and at seven started for Corriemulzie, for a…

We were startled this morning, at seven o’clock, by a letter from Colonel Phipps, enclosing a telegraphic despatch with the report, from the sixth edition of the…

This day has been a very happy, lucky, and memorable one—our last! A fine morning. Albert had to see Mr. Walpole, and therefore it was nearly eleven o’clock before…