From: Quotes about love
Why are there so many songs and verses about love
but few about marriage--the supposedly natural outcome of that act?
Perhaps because the first comes somewhere from heavens above;
While the latter requires almost infinite diplomacy and tact.
Especially when the blushing young bride,
has almost all the money, power and pride.
Do you think I'm being snide?
But if a once humble Prince can do it, He
may be remembered in perpetuity
with Museum and Offspring as annuity.
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From:Martin Chilton, the Telegraph
04 Jan 2016
..... quotes about love and romance? ....
"Love, built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.”
(John Donne)
QUEEN VICTORIA went from being a sultry young woman (if you go by the 1843 painting by Franz Xaver Winterhalter on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum) to the rather grim-faced version of 1895. She was 20 when she wed her first cousin, German-born Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, in 1840. The English word "love" is supposedly derived from Germanic forms of the Sanskrit lubh (desire) and there seems to have been plenty of lubh in the royal household: in 17 years, Victoria and Albert had nine children. But this was no tale of sustained bliss. Queen Victoria had terrible temper tantrums. Albert would hide from her and then push notes under her door, one of which, in 1857, asked plaintively: "What makes you so bitter?”
(John Donne)
QUEEN VICTORIA went from being a sultry young woman (if you go by the 1843 painting by Franz Xaver Winterhalter on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum) to the rather grim-faced version of 1895. She was 20 when she wed her first cousin, German-born Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, in 1840. The English word "love" is supposedly derived from Germanic forms of the Sanskrit lubh (desire) and there seems to have been plenty of lubh in the royal household: in 17 years, Victoria and Albert had nine children. But this was no tale of sustained bliss. Queen Victoria had terrible temper tantrums. Albert would hide from her and then push notes under her door, one of which, in 1857, asked plaintively: "What makes you so bitter?”
As she got older, Victoria drank more heavily – and her favourite tipple was a weirdly powerful mix of claret and whisky – as she grew to resent her role as a national womb. Repeated pregnancies, she wrote, were "more like a rabbit or a guinea pig than anything else and not very nice".
No wonder she was never amused.
Credit: Clara Molden/Telegraph/Rex Features
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