On 6th July 1868, when told of the birth of her seventh granddaughter, Queen Victoria remarked that the news was \'a very uninteresting thing for it seems to me to go on like the rabbits in Windsor Park.\' Her apathy was understandable - this was her fourteenth grandchild, and, though she had given birth to nine children, she had never been fond of babies, viewing them as \'frog-like and rather disgusting...particularly when undressed.\' The early years of her marriage had, she claimed, been ruin.
On 6th July 1868, when told of the birth of her seventh granddaughter, Queen Victoria remarked that the news was \'a very uninteresting thing for it seems to me to go on like the rabbits in Windsor Park.\' Her apathy was understandable - this was her fourteenth grandchild, and, though she had given birth to nine children, she had never been fond of babies, viewing them as \'frog-like and rather disgusting...particularly when undressed.\' The early years of her marriage had, she claimed, been ruin
