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held by her subjects.
The Queen is further dismayed to learn that the President's
administration is encouraging the legalization of prostitution. While the
Queen cannot prevent the President from this folly, she _can certainly resist_
the President's efforts to convince her to become a champion of legalized
prostitution. Although the President's appeal to protect the lives and health
of fallen women is most eloquent, the Queen assures her that no such problem
exists in Great Britain (except possibly among the Irish who, after all,
cannot help themselves). The Queen protests the figures quoted in President
Woodhull's letter which indicate that Her Majesty's subjects enter brothels
more frequently than they enter churches. While this is very possibly true of
France, the figures are erroneous when applied to Her Majesty's realm!
The Queen recalls that the President's administration is instituting
dietary reform, and she suggests that diet may well be at the very root of the
problem. Some hearty roast beef, not to mention tea and clotted cream, might
well minimize some of the President's more eccentric impulses!
The Queen understands from the President's letter that the Secretary of
Reproductive Freedom will supervise research and legislation regarding
abortion and birth control. Though the Queen cannot condone this, she does see
how this could be considered necessary if everyone in America is going to
start practicing free love, since primogeniture could become _extremely
confusing_.
Evidently, the Queen misunderstood the President's purpose in
appointing Talks Much Woman as Commissioner of Indian Affairs, as well as her
goals in dealing with the American Indian tribes. Would it be too presumptuous
of the Queen to inquire _just how much more_ of the United States the
President intends to give back to native tribes?
Finally, the Queen regrets to inform President Woodhull that her new
American ambassador to the Court of St. James was arrested upon arrival. She
was wearing _a short skirt_. A skirt which, the Queen is unhappily obliged to
inform the President, exposed a considerable portion of her _limbs_. Mr.
Gladstone was in a state of considerable excitement, the poor man.
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WINDSOR CASTLE, 23rd October 1875
Despite the Queen's firm resolve to have no further correspondence with
President Woodhull after the remarks in her Christmas greeting of 1873, she
now finds it necessary to appeal to the President to cease this relentless
barrage of change which has _so afflicted_ British society since the
President's election.
The Prince of Wales has recently abandoned his wife, the Princess
Alexandra, having explained to the Queen that he is now practicing free love
in the American manner, finding it a charming and thoroughly civilized custom.
The Princess objected until the American ambassador explained that free love
is also _her_ right, and she has since become the constant companion of Lord
Tennyson (whose works are now sadly lacking in the fine moral tone for which
he was once known).
The Queen's dearly beloved daughters, Princess Beatrice and Princess
Louise, now habitually wear the short skirts first popularized by the
President's select representatives in this country. Thousands upon thousands
of young women have followed suit, and many of them have established