Alas, the last of Lord Esher's typescripts end on 16 February 1840, a mere six days into the marriage. The final line in the volumes he inspected was
Here ends my twenty-eighth journal book, which contains the most interesting and the happiest time of my life.
and after that we have only the censored copies that Princess Beatrice produced.
The Princess's versions squelch the spirit that so animate the snippets above – no saucy remarks on what was beneath Albert's dress breeches, no excited underlining, no anticipation of being "very very" intimate, no excitement at the prospect of no longer sleeping along, nor even a mention of how Victoria delightedly watched her new prince-consort shave. Even her account of her marriage's consummation on her nuptial evening is edited into her being thankful for how Albert sat near her.
Queen Victoria would go on to have nine children – though she resented the interruption to her newly-minted sex life that the first represented – and when her doctors advised her that her ninth would probably be her last, she is rumored to have said, aghast, words to the effect of "What, no more fun in bed?"
Victoria's private diaries, which by order of the late Queen Elizabeth II were made available online at http://www.queenvictoriasjournals.org in 2012, are an incredibly intimate – albeit mostly censored – look into the daily life of one of history's most powerful monarchs.
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