Ever, my beloved child, your faithfully attached Uncle and Friend, LEOPOLD R.
[Footnote 29: The Princess was to attain her legal majority on 24th May.] [Footnote 30: George Davys, the Princess Victoria's instructor, Dean of Chester, and afterwards Bishop of Peterborough.] [Footnote 31: Thomas Vowler Short, Rector of St George's, Bloomsbury, appointed in 1841 Bishop of Sodor and Man.] [Footnote 32: Lady Catherine Jenkinson, daughter of the Earl of Liverpool, soon after the Queen's accession married Colonel Francis Vernon Harcourt.] _The Princess Victoria to the King of the Belgians._ _12th April 1837._ ...

What you say about the newspapers is very true and very flattering.

They are indeed a curious compound of truth and untruth.

I am so used to newspaper nonsense and attacks that I do not mind it in the least....
How happy I am that that beloved Aunt is going on so well and does not suffer from the cold, as also the _jeune Philippe_.

Leopold must be great fun with his Aunt Marie;[33] does he still say "_pas beau frere!_" or is he more reconciled to his brother?
It is very noble in the Duc de Nemours to have thus given up his _apanage_;[34] I am sorry there were such difficulties about it.