![]() ![]() ![]() She continued writing until just ten days before her death, 69 years later, filling 122 volumes. ![]() She was instructed in this by her governess, Lehzen, and her mother inspected the journals each day until she became Queen. Victoria started a daily journal in 1832, when she was just thirteen years old, and her first words were, "This book, Mamma gave me, that I might write the journal of my journey to Wales in it." The keeping of such journals was common at that time. The collection is stored in the Royal Archives and, in 2012, was put online in partnership with the Bodleian Libraries. Extracts were published during her life and sold well. Queen Victoria maintained diaries and journals throughout her life, filling 122 volumes which were expurgated after her death by her daughter Princess Beatrice. ![]()
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