Edward VII, King of Great Britain to William Ernest announcing the death of his mother H.R.H Queen Victoria - American History 1493-1945 - Adam Matthew Digital

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Field name	Value
Collection Reference Number	GLC00496.024
From Archive Folder	Documents Relating to the 1900s
Title	Edward VII, King of Great Britain to William Ernest announcing the death of his mother H.R.H Queen Victoria
Date	22 February 1901
Author	Edward VII, King of Great Britain (1841-1910)
Document Type	Correspondence
Content Description	Writes to Ernest, the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar Eisenach. Announces the death of his mother Victoria. Signed "Edward Rex" with his addition of the day and closing salutation "Good Brother and Cousin." Written on black-bordered stationery.
Subjects	Death Children and Family Global History and Civics Government and Civics
People	Edward VII, King of Great Britain (1841-1910) William Ernest, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (fl. 1876-1901) Victoria, Queen of Great Britain (1819-1901)
Place written	London, England
Theme	Foreign Affairs
Sub-collection	The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1860-1945
Copyright	The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module	Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945
Transcript	Show/hide Sir, My Brother and Cousin, It is with the deepest affliction that I announce to Your Royal Highness the decease of My Most Honoured and Beloved Mother, Her Majesty Queen Victoria of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India, of blessed memory, whom it pleased God to call from this world on the evening of the 22nd : ultimo at half past six o'clock, in the 64th Year of her Reing, [2] and I feel convinced that you will participate in My own, and in the public grief, for the loss of a Sovereign so justly beloved and revered In acquainting Your Royal Highness, at the same time, with My accession to the Throne, I assure You that it will ever be My Earnest desire to cultivate and to maintain the relations of friendship and good understanding which so happily subsist between Our respective [3] Crowns, and that it will always afford Me the greatest pleasure to prove to Your Royal Highness the sincerity of the invariable attachment and highest Esteem with which I am, Sir, My Brother and Cousin, Your Royal Highness's London, Good Brother and Cousin February 22nd, 1901. Edward Rex To My Good Brother and Cousin, The Grand Duke of Saxe- Weimar Eisenach

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