Spot the difference. Which of these pictures is of the young Queen Victoria? The answer is that they both are, strange as that may seem. The rather plain, slim and demure young lady in the painting is what the artist made of the fat, puddeny blob in the photograph. She was every inch the madam, and quite a virago. As a nine year old girl, she is quoted as saying to another child "I may call you Louise but you may not call me Victoria". It's all rather silly, since her name was actually Alexandrina, so why did she go round calling herself Victoria? Don't forget, of course, that the poor, sweet, innocent little luv didn't have a room of her own until she was eighteen. It makes your heart bleed. Perhaps she didn't realise that a huge number of her subjects lived one family to a room. The poor woman didn't know the half of it.
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