Gossip In The First Decade Of Victoria’s Reign

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“I have written this Gossip not only for the edification of those to whom a portion, more or less, may be news, but for those who, like myself, have lived through the whole of Queen Victoria’s reign, to whom the remembrance of things, almost forgotten, may bring pleasure and excite interest. The items, herein displayed, have been gathered from many sources, and their authenticity is guaranteed by giving the name of the authority whence they were taken, in very many instances ipsissima verba, as paraphrasing would rob them of their freshness and individuality.” – taken from the preface of John Ashton. Gossip here must be comprehended as colloquial, free chatter or authorship, particularly of society or societal circumstances. John Ashton was a historian and a distinguished author, unreasonably overlooked, of social values, practices, and everyday life of the English Regency and its before and after. This text of Victoria’s first regime is the final of a few thirty texts of different earlier times. The titles of the sections comprise only some of the several remarkable individuals and occurrences comprised in the section.

King William the Fourth was as genuinely loving of his niece, Alexandrina Victoria, as he affably despised her mother, and he seriously wished that she could acquire her majority, before his death, for he had a revulsion of the Duchess of Kent having even the spectral dominance of a Regent. Greville, in his life account, it stated, “The King prayed that he might live till the Princess Victoria was of age, and he was very nearly dying just as the event arrived. He is better, but supposed to be in a very precarious state. There has been a fresh squabble between Windsor and Kensington about a proposed allowance to the Princess.”
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