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Article: Today I have reigned longer than any English sovereign
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- The Scotsman
- Article date:
- September 20, 1999
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23 September 1795
A miserable night indeed.
Alas! Alas! What a Fool to drink Coffee!
Rev William Bagshaw Stevens
23 September 1896
Today is the day on which I have reigned longer, by a day, than
any English sovereign, and the people wished to make all sorts of
demonstrations, which I asked them not to do until I had completed
the sixty years next June.
But notwithstanding that this was made public in the papers,
people of all kinds and ranks, from every part of the kingdom, sent
congratulatory telegrams, and they kept coming in all day.
Queen Victoria
20 September 1909
{Bazar de l'hotel de ville, Fontainebleau}
I wonder how a description of this shop, the largest in the town,
would sound 50 ...