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23 January 1901 — Rome | |
Wednesday. 23rd [January 1901]. She died last night at 6.45– It is incredible. One feels as if everything must have stopped. It can no longer be the same world. The new King might be ever so good & wise but it will never be the same thing. We have lost our mother & are bereft! We cannot make the other nations understand the utter sense of desolation it brings upon every English person. Adeline B. & Mrs Arkwright came in the morning to see me—Addie to borrow a black cloak of mine to go to the Embassy to pay her visit of condolence. Idita Bent also came. I got up abt 10—much better without fever but sat in the drawing room all day & there had my meals too. At tea Hilda Keppel came & also Countess Canevaro & her sister & Baroness Reinelt. They could not evidently understand our feelings. Hilda stayed on a bit and we crooned together about it. Adeline & I sent a joint telegram of condolence to the Empress Frederick & I one to Miss Knollys for the P. & Pss of Wales—now K. & Queen. I still feel lost—& dazed. To the Empress we said “Deeply stricken ourselves we venture to offer Your Majesty expression of our sympathy & sorrow with humble duty.” To Miss Knollys I said “Pray present humble duty & expressions of deep sorrow to Prince & Princess of Wales.” | |
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