Death
The Duchess died on 16 March 1861, at the age of 74. She is buried in the Duchess of Kent's Mausoleum at Frogmore, Windsor Home Park, near to the royal residence Windsor Castle.
The Queen was much affected by her mother's death. It was the start to a disastrous year, which would end with Albert's death.
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“It was not death he feared—it was the disgrace of death, and the misery of the ignominious preparations. He knew in his heart that heaven could not call it murder that he had done; but he felt equally sure that man would do so.”
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