Queen Victoria
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When Queen Victoria was overruled by her local church
Cosmo Gordon Lang made his third visit to Queen Victoria in January 1899. She talked to him about her love of Balmoral and of her attachment to the Church of Scotland which was not diminished by an incident she...
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Queen Victoria gives Cosmo Lang her views on preaching and the sacraments
Last month I said that our present Queen was confirmed by Cosmo Gordon Lang in 1942 in one of his last acts as Archbishop of Canterbury. I went on to describe his first encounter with Queen Victoria, aged 80,...
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Cosmo’s memories of Queen Victoria
Our present Queen was confirmed by Cosmo Gordon Lang in 1942 in one of his last acts as Archbishop of Canterbury. Maybe, during confirmation classes, Lang shared with the Queen his recollections of spending time with her great great grandmother,...
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From Devon to the throne
Princess Victoria first saw the sea at Sidmouth. Her father (Frederick, Duke of Kent, the fourth son of George III) had come from Germany to England on borrowed money, and his creditors were pursuing him. A captain in the...
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