Queen Victoria’s diary, 1879

At twenty minutes to eleven Brown knocked and came in, and said there was bad news ; and when I, in alarm, asked what, he replied, " The young French Prince is…

Had a bad, restless night, haunted by this awful event, seeing those horrid Zulus constantly before me, and thinking of the poor Empress, who did not yet know it.…

At two I started off" with Beatrice and Ja.nie Ely (Sir Henry Ponsonby and General Gardiner having gone on to Ballater) in the landau and four, the postilions in…

A fine morning. Breakfasted with Beatrice, Arthur, and Louischen in the garden cottage, and at eleven we started for Arthur's Cairn, I on my pony "Jessie," Beatrice…

At ten minutes past four drove with the Empress Eugenie (who had driven up from Abergeldie) in the victoria to the Glen Gelder Shiel, or Ruidh na Bhan Righ (the…