Victoria's Hat
My favorite monument in London is the Victoria Monument in the front of Buckingham Palace. I know little about her majesty, apart from what information I have found on the internet and what evidence of her I saw in London, while I visited. However, I was entranced by her majestic image carved into stone upon the entrance to the present monarch's residence. So many places in London have been given her name, and this monument, endearing and graceful, represents a powerful, yet just woman. I remember thinking, as I gazed upward at the monolithic sculpture, "The people here adore her, or someone here once did," and I cannot help but imagine a positive influence exuding from her countenance. 
History says that the Queen was direly in love with her husband, Prince Albert, and a true romantic, she mourned his death for decades after his passing. For a queen to have been submissive to a husband who was not a king, for a queen to have born nine children with this man, for a queen to have worn black in mourning for twenty or more years after this man's death, I infer that this queen was a woman of keen sensitivities, willing to love with every pulse of her heart.
My favorite monument in London is the Victoria Monument in the front of Buckingham Palace. I know little about her majesty, apart from what information I have found on the internet and what evidence of her I saw in London, while I visited. However, I was entranced by her majestic image carved into stone upon the entrance to the present monarch's residence. So many places in London have been given her name, and this monument, endearing and graceful, represents a powerful, yet just woman. I remember thinking, as I gazed upward at the monolithic sculpture, "The people here adore her, or someone here once did," and I cannot help but imagine a positive influence exuding from her countenance. 
History says that the Queen was direly in love with her husband, Prince Albert, and a true romantic, she mourned his death for decades after his passing. For a queen to have been submissive to a husband who was not a king, for a queen to have born nine children with this man, for a queen to have worn black in mourning for twenty or more years after this man's death, I infer that this queen was a woman of keen sensitivities, willing to love with every pulse of her heart.
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