[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 VI 60/99
They have no money, and the _Chartists_ want to bring about another counter-revolution, which would be fatal to the poor Queen's interests, I fear. That you approve my plan about Stockmar I am delighted to hear. I hope to go into Buckingham Palace very shortly after the funeral. Now, dearest Uncle, I must invite you _en forme_.
I should be most _delighted_ if you, dearest Aunt Louise, and Leopold (_j'insiste_) could come about the _middle_ or _end_ of _August_.
Then I should beg you would stay a little longer than usual, a fortnight at _least_.
You could bring as many gentlemen, ladies, _bonnes_, etc., etc., as you pleased, and I should be _too_ happy and proud to have you under _my own_ roof.... [Footnote 58: General Comte Baudrand (1774-1848).] [Footnote 59: Son of Marshal Ney.] _The Earl of Liverpool to Baron Stockmar._ _5th July 1837._ Went about half-past ten o'clock to Apsley House, and told the Duke of Wellington the whole of my communication with the Queen, Duchess of Kent, and Sir John Conroy on 15th June, also of my communication subsequently with Lord Melbourne, all of which he very much approved of.
He said that he was quite sure that the Queen would find Lord Melbourne an honourable man, and one in whom Her Majesty might put confidence; that he was a man apt to treat matters too lightly, or, as he expressed it, a _poco curante_, but in the main an honest and an honourable man.
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