QUEEN VICTORIA: THE SCOTTISH JOURNALS (MAX PRESS)

Queen Victoria's diaries of her visits to Scotland were bestsellers in their day. This selection of diary entries tells of the scenery, weather, people, and events as she experienced them. From rides out on Highland moors, to reports on shooting parties, frank retellings of lugubrious funerals, descriptions of formal dinners, and impromptu luncheons with simple folk met on her excursions, the journals cover both the happy decades before her widowhood, and the years of mourning dominated by her faithful friend and servant, the sturdy Highlander John Brown.