Nourish This Wonderful Trait

Published: Sept. 28, 2020, 5 a.m.

b'"Sometimes, when parents fall down on the job, it falls to someone else to do the job. The primary and most important influence on Queen Victoria, for instance, was not her mother but her beloved governess Baroness Lehzen, who later became her adviser and friend.It was from Louise Lehzen that Victoria got the backbone that made her one of England\\u2019s great queens\\u2014one who ruled for some 63 years, more than 40 of them by herself."Ryan describes what Baroness Lehzen did that imbued Victori...'