Queen Victoria’s Heart

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Though Dean Farrar was the privileged friend of Queen Victoria, he seldom referred to this distinction. But he did so on the occasion of the first anniversary of the accession of Edward VI to the throne of England, during the service in Canterbury Cathedral, when he related that Queen Victoria, after hearing one of her chaplains preach at Windsor on the second advent of Christ, spoke to the dean about it and said: “Oh, how I wish that the Lord would come during my lifetime.” “Why does your majesty feel this very earnest desire?” asked the great preacher. With her countenance illuminated by deep emotion the Queen replied, “Because I should so love to lay my crown at His feet.”

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