Victoria's Scottish Lion Quotes

“Aged 36, Victoria was that odd mixture of autarchy and girlish silliness, half Boudicea, half Violet Elizabeth. ‘War is indeed awful … I never regretted
more than I have done these last few months that I was a poor woman and not a man!’ she had told the Duke of Cambridge after the Battle of Inkerman, bosom presumably heaving with emotion under imaginary Elizabethan armour.”
― Adrian Greenwood, Victoria's Scottish Lion: The Life of Colin Campbell, Lord Clyde