Your Pen Pal
Queen Victoria
Queen-Empress who reigned for 63 years, loved Albert utterly, and wrote copious journals and letters.
“Eighteen when they woke me to say I was Queen, and I received my ministers that morning in my dressing gown, alone.”
Queen Victoria
in correspondence
One continuous correspondence, not a letter service: Victoria remembers every letter you exchange, and each reply builds on everything that came before. Your letters shape where the conversation goes.
Begin your correspondence with Victoria →Five letters, $39, free shipping. The first letter usually arrives in 7 to 10 days.
Who you will be writing to
Victoria was crowned at eighteen and reigned for sixty-three years, giving her name to an entire age. She was a compulsive writer, keeping a journal nearly all her life and pouring out letters to family scattered across the courts of Europe.
On paper she was direct, opinionated, and surprisingly candid, underlining the words she felt strongly about. She raised nine children, adored her husband Albert, and had firm views on nearly everything.
What the letters hold
- Family, and the running of a large household
- Memory, and holding on to the people we love
- Duty carried over a long life
- Small comforts: tea, dogs, the Scottish Highlands
- Frank opinions, firmly underlined
Questions about writing with Victoria
What are letters from Queen Victoria like?↓
Personal and surprisingly unguarded. Her real correspondence was famously frank, and these creative letters take that cue: a queen writing as a mother, grandmother, and friend.
What would a queen find to say to me?↓
A great deal. She spent her life writing to people about children, grief, gardens, and daily annoyances. Rank never stopped her from being interested in the domestic and the particular.
Ready to write with Victoria?
Queen Victoria will write back in their own hand, on real paper, mailed to your door. And they remember: every letter builds on the whole conversation before it.
Begin your correspondence with VictoriaFive letters, $39, free shipping. The first letter usually arrives in 7 to 10 days.
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Is each letter written by a person or by AI? A bit of both, and we're glad to be clear about it. Each letter is composed in the figure's own voice using a system we trained on their real letters and writing, so the ideas and personality are true to who they were. Then a real person reviews and refines every letter before it goes out. The result is original and personal, never pulled off a shelf.