We must thank ZMKC for cutting out of a 2001 issue of the New Yorker this absolutely splendid photograph of Queen Victoria. I suspect that the Queen was channelling Madame Blavatsky, presenting herself as a mystic seer. Such garb should set an example to the royal personages of today.
She looks like the woman who thought – justifiably – that she was a pair of curtains just after she’d pulled herself together.