A chara, - Further to Jim Duffy's article (February 21st) on the British royals and Ireland, I think the length of time Queen Victoria spent in Ireland is also probably a good indication of how she felt about the country.
Stanley Weintraub, one of her biographers, has calculated that over a reign of 64 years she spent a total of five weeks here (compared with seven years in Scotland). - Is mise,
DESMOND O'FLANAGAN,
Dublin 8.