Letters between queen Victoria and the Princess Royal 1858-1861. These intimate letters of Queen Victoria to her eldest daughter, the Princess Royal, were written during the four years between February 1858 when the young princess married Frederick of Prussia (afterwards German Emperor) and December 1861 when her father, the Prince Consort died. From this selection which has been brilliantly edited by Roger Fulford, emerges a clear picture of family life in Buckingham Palace, Windsor, and Berlin, for it also includes many letters from the Princes, whom the editor describes as the most remarkable English princess of modern history. The Queen's observations on her children, her anxieties about finding a suitable bride for the Prince of Wales, her disapproval of the "Victorian Sunday", her reference to her beloved Scottish hills and her grief at the death of her mother are some of the many endearing aspects of this exceptionally human correspondence.