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	John Brown (servant) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Brown (December 8, 1826 - March 27, 1883) was born in Crathie, Scotland, and went to work as a servant (in Scots ghillie or gillie) at Balmoral Castle when Queen Victoria and Prince Albert built it (1853-1855).
		After Albert died in 1861, Brown became Victoria's personal servant, and she was so grateful for his service (and his manner toward her, which was much less formal than that of her other servants) that she awarded him medals and had portrait paintings and statues made of him.
		John Brown is also credited with inventing a cocktail made up of equal parts of claret wine and Scotch whisky, which was said to be Victoria's favourite tipple.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Brown_(servant) (590 words)

	Mrs. Brown - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Brown is also the name of a song by Herman's Hermits.
		Brown, presumably for the benefit of people who might not understand the original title) is a 1997 movie starring Dame Judi Dench, Billy Connolly, Anthony Sher, and Gerard Butler.
		The film tells the story of Queen Victoria and her relationship with her servant, John Brown, and the scandal it produced (the nickname "Mrs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mrs._Brown (189 words)

	brown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Brown is a color produced by mixing small intensities of red and green light.
		Brown is a short name for the U.S. Supreme Court case Brown v.
		Mrs Brown is a 1997 movie about Queen Victoria and her Scottish servant, John Brown.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Brown.html (342 words)

	John Brown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Queen's trusted servant and friend from 1864 till his death in 1883, he succeeded in bringing Victoria out of deep mourning over Albert, but their relationship caused tongues to wag and engendered disrespect for and intense displeasure with the monarchy.
		The Prince's gillie had now become the Queen's personal attendant -- a body servant from whom she was never parted, who accompanied her on her drives, waited on her during the day, and slept in a neighbouring chamber at night.
		Brown" in his letters to the Queen, and the French Government took particular pains to provide for his comfort during the visits of the English Sovereign to France.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/masterpiece/mbrown/men/brown_bio.html (449 words)

	Old John Brown
		John had serious concern for the effect this might have upon his brother's morals, and he sought the lenient teacher and informed him that the fault was much deprecated by their father at home, and he was sure castigation there would have been inevitable.
		John Brown now prepared for his final effort, for the enterprise he had espoused and the sacrifice he had sworn to make for it were to be completed by his death.
		John Brown is not dead; he is more alive than ever he was.' As that same year the Northern States gird themselves for the great Presidential contest, determined that at length a thorough Abolitionist named Abraham Lincoln shall tenant the White House, it is evident that John Brown's soul is marching on.
	www.pos1.info /o/ojbrn.htm (11358 words)

	Mrs. Brown -- 1996
		Brown,'' John Madden's new film about the strangely passionate relationship between Queen Victoria and her Scottish servant John Brown, is evidently the exception.
		Brown,'' which is itself as willfully discreet as the Queen's demeanor, goes on to describe a resonant and fascinating chapter in the middle of Victoria's 64-year reign.
		Brown'' transcends its period setting not only with a keenly observed struggle between love and duty but also with the kind of controversy that envelops the Queen and her servant.
	www.djdchronology.com /mrsbrown.htm (2179 words)

	John Brown, Queen Victoria's Personal Servant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Brown was born on a farm at Crathie in 1826 and was employed at Balmoral at the time of its purchase by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
		Brown appears to have been very 'honest' in offering genuine friendship to the Queen at a time of need but equally telling unwanted truths to the important people surrounding her.
		The Queen refused to desert Brown because of the scandalous talk - which she dismissed as 'ill-natured gossip' - and Brown could not be ordered away because his orders came directly from the Queen.
	www.lochnagar.org /history/jbrown.htm (616 words)

	Royal Deeside, Scotland : John Brown & Queen Victoria
		Recently, the relationship between Queen Victoria and her servant John Brown was portrayed in the film 'Mrs Brown' starring Dame Judi Dench and Billy Connelly.
		John Brown was born at Crathie and was buried there.
		Ultimately, Brown's loyalty to the Queen probably cost him his life - he died at Windsor Castle in February 1883, aged 56, as the result of a chill which could have been avoided had he taken to his sick bed.
	www.royal-deeside.org.uk /RDhistory/johnbrown.htm (554 words)

	Masterpiece Theatre \| Her Majesty Mrs. Brown \| The Making of the Film
		Brown is the true story of two people who defied convention, politics, and the rigid rules of royal life to touch one another.
		Brown and a native of Scotland, had long been intrigued by the story of the Scottish servant John Brown, who is historically know to have been one of Queen Victoria's closest and most unlikely friends.
		And yet the very moving part of the story is that John Brown can never really have a loving relationship with the Queen because he is a servant and she is a monarch, and the constraints are too enormous.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/masterpiece/mbrown/ei_making.html (2199 words)

	John Brown
		John Brown (1800-1850) was born in Torrington, Connecticut, but spent most of his youth in Ohio where he met people active in the antislavery movement.
		Brown’s uncompromising stand against slavery won him numerous supporters in the North, where many abolitionists were frustrated by their lack of progress.
		John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry was a major step toward the polarization of North and South on the eve of the Civil War.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h153.html (349 words)

	Contemporary Review: Queen Victoria's 'secret marriage'
		The usual postulated groom is her Highland Servant John Brown, depicted from tabloid newssheet to film screen as a cross between a drunken Scottish Rasputin and a rude, uncultured Caledonian Stud.
		The Queen's earliest mention of Brown is in her Journal entry for 11 September 1849 describing a visit to Dhu Loch, listing the gillies in attendance; by 1851 John Brown took on the permanent role of leader of Queen Victoria's pony on Prince Albert's instigation.
		The fact that Queen Victoria wished to write and publish a biography of John Brown on his death in 1883--an idea thwarted by such as the Dean of Windsor, Randall Thomas Davidson--had his portrait painted for her private collection, and distributed trinkets bearing his image, all added to the Queen's apparent obsession with her 'lover'.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2242/is_1655_283/ai_112095011 (1284 words)

	Albion College Pleiad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Brown, played by Billy Connolly, holds little respect for the rigid rules of the English royal court.
		Brown and the Queen spend many days cultivating a friendship and riding the royal horses across the countryside.
		Brown." Victorians were extremely proper and sexually repressed, making the Queen's relationship an embarrassment to the royal household.
	www.albion.edu /pleiad/1999/10_22/features_7.asp (282 words)

	History Company - Tartan Blanket
		Such was their reputation that Queen Victoria, during her stay in Balmoral castle, inquired whether MacNaughtons might send her a blanket, which in Scotland was known as a travel rug since it was often used to keep warm during long rides in horsedrawn carriages.
		The Queen was so enamored with the travel rugs that she instructed her personal servant, John Brown (whom many suspected to be engaged in a secret romance with the Queen) to procure more of the travel rugs.
		Brown's telegram making such a request, along with another explaining that the Queen was so pleased with them (and apparently unable to decide upon one in particular) that she had decided to keep 14 Macnaughton travel rugs for herself.
	www.lightlink.com /history/uk/products/011.html (377 words)

	Movies: Mrs. Brown - Margaret McGurk: The Cincinnati Enquirer
		Against orders, Brown stands outside her window every day with her saddled horse until he draws the queen out of her castle for a ride.
		In turn, Brown grows more protective, even possessive, to the point that he virtually runs her household and argues violently with her son Bertie, Prince of Wales (David Westhead).
		Brown succeeds in showing her as a human being, shaped by grief and saved by love.
	www.cincinnati.com /freetime/movies/mcgurk/mrsbrown.html (374 words)

	Mrs. Brown
		There were parodies of John Brown's activities, done up in the form of mock Court Circulars (the official listing of royal engagements), which appeared in the press on both sides of the Atlantic.
		Brown was a servant who put no stock in class divisions and the artificiality of social conventions -- his familiarity with the Queen (in fact no different from his direct and familiar manner of relating to everyone) was simply his manner.
		Brown (R) TV PG, L Airing July 22, 2001, on PBS (Check local listings.) Originally aired November 2000 She was the ruler of the...
	www.elipsiselectronics.com /B00000IQC6/Mrs._Brown.html (1573 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: John Brown : Queen Victoria's Highland Servant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Brown and his relationship with the queen is as accurate as possible.
		John Brown protected her as she was, a poor, broken-hearted bairn who wanted looking after and taking out of herself." Many around the Queen disapproved.
		He obliterated all the busts and mementoes of Brown after the Queen's death, but he was never able to wipe out the rumors that Brown and the Queen were lovers, or that they had a morganatic marriage, or that Brown was her guide in spiritualism.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0750927380?v=glance (1026 words)

	Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership
		The Servant Leadership School is an expression of The Center for Sharing, an ecumenical faith community of Christians, who seek to shares "lives of prayer, confession, and forgiveness in community united with service among the poor and marginal." The classes at the School are one component of the four-step program that the Center offers.
		Context: The development of servant leaders is the centerpiece of the DBU mission statement, the aim of its programs for students, and the goal toward which students are directed.
		Servant leadership is also an integral component of orientation sessions for new faculty and staff as well as workshops for full-time and adjunct faculty.
	www.greenleaf.org /leadership/networking/Educational-Institutions-Practicing-Servant-Leadership.html (3710 words)

	queen victoria's relationship with men (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Two of her most notorious relationships are with the Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne, and her personal servant, John Brown.
		The Queen and Brown were inseparable and did not try to conceal their friendship.
		Brown went everywhere with the Queen and even slept in the room next to hers.
	athena.english.vt.edu /~jmooney/3044annotationsp-z/victoriasmen.html (622 words)

	National Catholic Reporter: Shall We Dance? - movie reviews
		Brown will introduce moviegoers to a side of Queen Victoria of which most will be unaware: a woman who provoked widespread gossip by seeming to fall under the sway of her personal servant John Brown, a favorite of her late husband Albert as head of the royal stables in Scotland.
		Brown" skillfully exploits the glamour of the various royal houses, while revealing the stultifying absurdity of royal etiquette.
		Brown" is presumably accurate in presenting the dates and changes of locale of the Queen's movements, but does not try to resolve all the questions about her relationship with Brown.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1141/is_n38_v33/ai_19757623 (1371 words)

	Victoria's Secret Love Letters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Brown was a gillie (fishing and hunting guide) at Balmoral, the royal family's estate in Scotland.
		But it was not until after her husband's death (the Prince Consort succumbed to typhoid fever in 1861) that Brown began to become an important figure in Victoria's life.
		Victoria never concealed her devotion to Brown, and historians are aware of other other fond cards and letters from Victoria to her "best friend." Rae does not reveal the exact content of the letters he saw, saying only, "They were written by two people who were very close and shared an intimate friendship."
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/royal_history/15201 (548 words)

	Mrs Brown (PG) reviewed by Greg King (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In his no-nonsense and refreshingly irreverent style, Brown cut through the protocol and stuffy officialdom surrounding the Queen, and she came to implicitly trust his advice and guidance.
		Brown inevitably ruffled some feathers, particularly amongst the royal family, who felt their position being undermined and worked to oust him from his position of loyal servitude.
		Not a lot has been written about the relationship between Brown and Queen Victoria, and writer Jeremy Brock (better known for his contribution to television dramas like Casualty) speculates as to what may have happened behind the palace walls, and Mrs Brown is a poignant and moving story of unrequited passion.
	www.alphalink.com.au /~pjh/f488mrs.htm (698 words)

	The Scotsman - UK - Queen Victoria's letter over John Brown epitaph sells for £9,560 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The letter was written in the year of the death of Brown, who was born in Craithenaird, Balmoral, Aberdeenshire, and whose character was played by Billy Connolly in the hit film Mrs Brown.
		Brown was the crofter’s son whose promotion to the role of Queen Victoria’s personal servant and riding companion raised eyebrows in high society and incurred the wrath of the Queen’s immediate circle.
		At the same auction, a 1565 letter from Mary Queen of Scots granting a licence to remove tenants from an estate went for £11,950 and another letter from her, announcing the opening of parliament in Edinburgh in 1566, realised £7,767.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /uk.cfm?id=1330742003 (417 words)

	Movies 080797 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Brown" is a wonderful film about this relationship between Britain's Queen Victoria and her Scottish servant, John Brown.
		Brown" is brimming with rich performances, warm humor and mild political intrigue.
		The outspoken John Brown, a friend and servant to Albert, returns to take charge of Victoria's horses and, eventually, her life.
	www.sunnews.com /entertain/movies97/movies080797.htm (1142 words)

	Printed Matter -- Carolly Erickson -- Page
		Brown was summoned from Balmoral to take the Queen riding, an exercise that she once enjoyed.
		Brown, a Scotsman and a favorite of the late Prince, had little respect for the English or Court protocol.
		Three years later, John Brown was brought to Windsor to wait on her, at the suggestion of her personal doctor.
	www.dcn.davis.ca.us /~gizmo/1999/victoria.html (782 words)

	Mrs. Brown
		With persistence and a good deal of cheek, Brown draws Queen Victoria out of her "furious introspection." Acting on what he thinks would be King Albert's wishes, Brown bullies Victoria into riding her horse, taking a swim and even visiting some family friends.
		Brown isn't what you'd call a sexy film, and neither was Ethan Frome, but both have a physical quality that's stronger than the small gestures that the characters actually make onscreen.
		Brown didn't make it to the screen when the project was first pitched decades ago: a script starring Sean Connery and Liz Taylor was deep-sixed by the royal family out of embarrassment over the queen's behaviour.
	www.montrealmirror.com /ARCHIVES/1997/080797/film2.html (629 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Queen Victoria's affection for servant reflected in newly found letter
		The letter, written after Brown's death in 1883, talks of "her present unbounded grief for the loss of the best, most devoted of servants and truest and dearest friends."
		Victoria's relationship with the outspoken Brown was the subject of much gossip when he began to console her after the death of her husband, Prince Albert, in 1861.
		No one disputes the fact that Brown, a handsome man five years younger than the queen, became the most important person in her life after her husband died and remained her confidante for nearly 20 years.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20041215-1318-britain-queenvictoria.html (391 words)

	WWLP.COM - Movie Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The picture isn't telling us much, except that the burly Scottish highlander was summoned to Windsor Castle to help the Queen cope with the death of her husband, Prince Albert.
		Brown may have been able to twist the Queen around his little finger, but along side that brilliant statesman, Disraeli, marvelously played by Anthony Sher.
		Brown was downright clumsy, trying to explain his devotion to the Queen.
	www.wwlp.com /news/segments/sybersy/mrsbrown.html (290 words)

	NPG P22(4); John Brown; Queen Victoria
		John Brown (1826-1883), Gillie and personal servant of Queen Victoria.
		The Queen is shown about to go riding, attended by her faithful servant and companion John Brown.
		When Brown died the Queen described him as ‘my best and truest friend, - as I was his’ and, much to the disapproval of her family, organised elaborate tributes to him.
	www.npg.org.uk /live/search/portrait.asp?LinkID=mp04634&rNo=19&role=sit (86 words)

	KET Presents: Masterpiece Theatre: Her Majesty, Mrs. Brown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Devastated and inconsolable after the death of her husband, Albert, Queen Victoria of England shut herself away from the empire she had built, refusing to take any part in the public life of her nation—a choice that earned her the scorn of the British press.
		Brown is the critically acclaimed tale of two people who defied convention, politics, and the rigid rules of royal life in their affection for each other.
		For more information about Victoria and John Brown and insight into the making of the film, visit the Masterpiece Theatre web site about Her Majesty, Mrs.
	www.ket.org /content/bridgepromo/mast__003004.htm (188 words)

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