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Princess flying-boats a familiar sight in Cowes for years | Isle of Wight County Press

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Isle of Wight coffin delays ­— Queen Victoria's final days | Isle of Wight County Press


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Alan Stroud
St James Square on a summer’s evening in June 1897. The Queen noted in her diary, After tea, drove to Newport through the beautifully decorated streets. At the Market Place we stopped in front of a platform where they presented me with an
WHEN Queen Victoria died at Osborne her death was not totally unexpected ­ she was 81, overweight, and in general poor health.
On New Year’s Day, 1901, she wrote in her diary: “Another year begun and I am feeling so weak and unwell that I enter upon it sadly.”
Just three weeks later, at half past six in the evening of Tuesday, January 22, the Queen died in her bed in the arms of her grandson Kaiser Wilhelm, Emperor of Germany ­ who Britain would soon be at war with ­ and her personal physician, Sir James Reid. ....

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