In Canada, we celebrate the third Monday in May as Victoria Day to mark Queen Victoria’s birthday. Eager for a celebration, we turn the birthday into a long weekend filled with gardening and camping.

Mention “Queen Victoria” and a gloomy image of a tiny, long-reigning monarch springs to mind.  She produced nine heirs, 42 grandchildren earning the nick name “The Grandmother of Europe”.  But there is much more to this monarch than you might think: Victoria is also known for her devotion to letter writing.

Behind that royal veil of decorum  beat a passionate heart, writing therapeutically and boldly.  Aside from writing letters, she also kept journals. Despite the fact that her daughter revised  and destroyed  many of Victoria’s private documents, the essence of her personality remains available for us to discover.  The volume of material is so vast and fascinating that recently the BBC aired a two part program called “Queen Victoria’s Letters, a Monarch Unveiled.”

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So there you go, the royal gauntlet has been thrown down.  Take up the challenge and leave a your own legacy of letters behind.  We may lack royal blood but our stories do matter.

 ‘Nobody writes anymore, so there’ll be nothing left.’ Queen Elizabeth, great grand daughter of Queen Victoria, lamenting at a Windsor Castle dinner in 1991