Lord Aberdeen was quite touched when I told him I was so attached to the dear, dear Highlands and missed the fine hills so much. There is a great peculiarity about the Highlands and Highlanders; and they are such a chivalrous, fine, active people.
Queen Victoria, Arthur Helps (2010). “Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands, from 1848 to 1861”, p.42, Cambridge University Press
