Queen Victoria 1838 · Windsor Castle
Read dispatches & transact business
Morning · 09:00 start · Estimated
Estimated by typical tue. 09:00 is an approximate placement between rising soon after eight and Melbourne’s arrival at eleven or twelve.Source timing: After breakfast; the whole morning
“is employed the whole morning in transacting business”“all the despatches, and has every matter of interest and importance in every department laid before her.”
Two separate excerpts · Charles C. F. Greville
Line breaks and page markers omitted.
A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria, Vol. I
The Greville Memoirs, Second Part · London, 1885
15 December 1838 · pp. 146–148 · paragraph beginning ‘The life which the Queen leads is this’
Passage: 15 December 1838 · pp. 146–147 · ‘The life which the Queen leads is this’
Timing & context
This follows breakfast and includes the subsequent audience with Melbourne. No precise beginning or uninterrupted duration is recorded.
Greville describes the Queen’s established Windsor routine after staying at court. This is his eyewitness account, not Victoria’s own journal. Some times vary; morning business and afternoon leisure are placed approximately.
1838 is the year of Greville’s account. His 15 December entry describes an established Windsor routine, not only the events of that day. The routine should not be generalized to Victoria’s entire reign.