Secrets buried with the Queen .. Did Victoria love her Scottish servant?
Brown, who accompanied the queen after Albert’s death in 1861, became inherent in her attention. In 1866, a common Swiss newspaper published a pregnant woman, which caused a widespread confusion despite the absence of evidence. It is noteworthy that the queen did not seek to deny the rumors, but rather appeared with him in prominent official paintings.
The Times later published a testimony claimed to be a confession before the death of a Scottish priest, that they were informally married according to the marriage traditions of marriage in Scotland. But critical reviews are the evidence convincing, but are still not conclusive; There is no “resounding guide” regarding an official marriage or the presence of a joint child.
After the death of Brown in 1883, Victoria closed his room and wrote about him with great sadness, until she started preparing his memoirs before her advisers were prevented. Upon her death, her seventh son, Edward V, assumed the task of blurring the trace of Brown, and her messages were burned and her notes were revised.
While the Queen wrote about him: “Perhaps there was nothing in history with this depth and honesty between a king and his servant,” some see that these words may be the closest public recognition of a passion that has been kept secret for a whole century.
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