[The Letters of Queen Victoria, Volume 1 (of 3), 1837-1843) by Queen Victoria]@TWC D-Link bookThe Letters of Queen Victoria, Volume 1 (of 3), 1837-1843) CHAPTER II 6/30
Dear Uncle Leopold went with us. "To Tunbridge Wells we also went, living at a house called Mt. Pleasant, now an Hotel.
Many pleasant days were spent here, and the return to Kensington in October or November was generally a day of tears. "I was brought up very simply--never had a room to myself till I was nearly grown up--always slept in my Mother's room till I came to the Throne.
At Claremont, and in the small houses at the bathing-places, I sat and took my lessons in my Governess's bedroom.
I was not fond of learning as a little child--and baffled every attempt to teach me my letters up to 5 years old--when I consented to learn them by their being written down before me. [Pageheading: GEORGE IV.] "I remember going to Carlton House, when George IV.
lived there, as quite a little child before a dinner the King gave.
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