'This book, Mamma gave me, that I might write the journal of my journey to Wales in it.'
So began the first volume of a journal written in 1832 by Princess Victoria of Kent, aged 13.
It was a diary that the young royal - later to become Queen and ruler of the British Empire - would continue to add to until her death in 1901.
And now, her great-great-granddaughter Queen Elizabeth has launched a website documenting Victoria's life in her own words.
The monarch was handed a remote control in Buckingham Palace's throne room yesterday, which she pointed at a screen to officially launch the website,
Queen Victoria's Journals - Home Page - but revealed she had no plans to publish her own diaries.
The site contains 40,000 pages of the surviving volumes of Victoria's journals, along with sketches and paintings she drew to illustrate them.
