“. . . I have taken to Wellington and his dispatches again, and the more I read of him
the fonder I am of him. He really is in every respect a perfect man. . . . Palmerston was
very communicative at Stoke as to the great merits of the Queen. He said that any Ministers who had to
deal with her would soon find she was no ordinary person; and when Lady Sefton observed what credit it did the
Duchess of Kent to have made her what she
was, Palmerston said the Duchess of
Kent had every kind of merit, but that the Queen had an
understanding of her own that could have been made by no one. . . . Lady Charlemont succeeded Lady Tavistock the other day [in waiting at
Windsor]. She is very, very blue, and asked Lady T. if she
might take any books out of the library. ‘Oh yes, my dear,’
said Lady Tavistock, not knowing what reading means,
‘as many as you like;’ upon which
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