"Addresses to Her Majesty may be presented to Her Majesty through the Secretary of State, or may be reserved until Her Majesty can hold a Levée in person."
Sir Robert Peel humbly submits to your Majesty that it would not be advisable to prohibit by notice in the Gazette subsequent presentations to your Majesty. It will probably answer every purpose to state that they shall be considered equivalent, and when your Majesty shall hold a Levée it may be then notified at the time that second presentations are not necessary.
When the Prince shall hold the Levée, it may be made known at the time, without any formal public notification, that kneeling and the kissing of hands will not be required.
Sir Robert Peel hopes that the effect of holding these Levées may be materially to relieve your Majesty, but it is of course difficult to speak with certainty. He was under the impression that in the reign of Queen Anne, Prince George had occasionally held Levées on the part of the Queen during the Queen's indisposition, but on searching the Gazette of the time he cannot find any record of this.
Queen Victoria to Sir Robert Peel.
Claremont, 19th March 1843.
The Queen has received Sir Robert's letter, and quite approves of his suggestions concerning the Levées. The Prince is quite ready to do whatever may be thought right, and the Queen wishes Sir Robert to act upon the plan he has laid before her in his letter of yesterday. Perhaps it would be right before making anything public to consider the question of Drawing-Rooms likewise, which are of such importance to the trades-people of London. It would be painful for the Queen to think that she should be the cause of disappointment and loss to this class of her subjects, particularly at this moment of commercial stagnation. The Queen conceives that it would be the right thing that the same principle laid down for the Levées should be followed with regard to Drawing-Rooms, the Prince holding them for her. The Queen is anxious to have soon Sir Robert's opinion upon this subject. The Queen on looking at the almanac finds that only the two next weeks are available for these purposes before Easter.
Sir Robert Peel to Queen Victoria.
Whitehall, 27th March 1843.
Sir Robert Peel presents his humble duty to your Majesty, and hastens to reply to your Majesty's note of this date.