Queen Victoria
My father and all his tobacco loved you
I love you too in all your forms
The slim and lovely virgin floating among German beer
The mean governess of the huge pink maps
The solitary mourner of a prince
Queen Victoria
I am cold and rainy
I am dirty as a glass roof in a train station
Queen Victoria’s husband Albert died in 1861 at the age of only 42 years, after 22 years of marriage. Victoria wore black for the rest of her life (which was to last 40 years). 

Queen Victoria