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U.K. forward slash plan. Osborne House on the Isle of White, off the south coast of England, had long been where Queen Victoria would spend her Christmases.

Her beloved husband Albert had helped to design the house, and it had been embellished since

then to reflect the uneasy empire over which Victoria reigned.

But after the Christmas of 1900 had passed, and the bells had pealed welcoming the new year,

one could sense death lurking in the corridors of the house.

The Queen's health was failing.

There would be good days and bad days,

but her physician, Sir James Reed, knew the end was nigh.

Victoria was incapable of walking,

and her eyesight was fading into blackness.

Her prodigious appetite had gone,

and she'd lost almost half her body weight.

Family gathered round, including her eldest son, Prince Edward, and her eldest grandson, Kaiser Wilhelm

of Germany. Both were there with her at the end, the Kaiser kneeling by her bed and supporting

her with his arms until her dying breaths.

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