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Excerpt from The Life of Queen Victoria and the Story of Her Reign: A Beautiful Tribute to England's Greatest Queen in Her Domestic and Official Life; And Also the Life of the New King, Edward VII It is no hyperbole to say that in the whole history of mankind no other death has touched so large a number of the inhabitants of the globe. I sometimes wonder if we all realize how much we owe her, because you had to know much about the Queen to realize the debt the nation and her country were under to her. Probably every subject of Great Britain realizes that he has lost his greatest and best friend. She gave to the councils of Great Britain an advantage which no tongue, no brilliance, no genius can supply. She was by far the senior of all Hie world's sovereigns, and it is no disparagement to other kings to say that she was the chief of all European sovereigns. In the pursuit of her duty, in the performance of her duty, she never swerved, in spite of increasing age, in spite of failing eyes, and in spite of the innumerable domestic sorrows with which the latter years of her life were crowded. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.