Snipped from http://www.barnardf.demon.co.uk/ ----- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar Nagpur, India Letters of a Victorian lady, Ada E Leslie, 1883 to 1894 Prussian (German), British and Greek Royal Palaces and travel in Royal Yachts occupy this Victorian lady's life after an eventful visit to India from England as a children's governess with a final move to Burma as the wife of a District Police Commander. Described as an epic traveller for those days she goes to India to work for an English Army Colonel - and almost immediately travels back to England via a small war in Egypt. Subsequently she goes to Potsdam, Marmor, Windsor, Osbourne, Homberg and Berlin working for the future Kaiser Wilhelm II ("Kaiser Bill" to the British soldier in World War I). Then she becomes a Lady-in-Waiting to Wilhelm's sister, Sophie (also a grandchild of Queen Victoria and the future Queen of Greece) travels to Greece then Berlin and back, Copenhagen, Russia, Weisbaden and back before resigning to marry and go to Prome in Burma. Ada describes all these events in 52 letters written to her cousin, some 34 000 words over 11 years. There are insights into the royal families and their way of life as well as the lives of others around them and descriptions of towns and places. I do not have her exact date of birth but it appears that she was born in 1860 as the 1881 census indicates that she is 21 and working in a large household as a 'domestic' nurse - probably for the young child of the family. (Snip) ===========================