HIDDEN HISTORIES
Dec 27, 2019
2 minutes
“From war slave to Victoria’s court: one woman’s amazing story”
On 9 December 1867, Queen Victoria received a visit from one of her goddaughters and the child’s mother. This is what the queen wrote in her diary:
“Saw Sally, now Mrs Davies, & her dear little child, far blacker than herself, called Victoria & aged four; a lively intelligent child with big melancholy
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