“Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.”

— Victoria of the United Kingdom

Letter to King of the Belgians, Nuneham, 15th June, 1841 (Note: Nuneham was the house of Edward Vernon Harcourt, Archbishop of York).

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