Baby Queen Victoria
By RasmaSandra
@RasmaSandra (85055)
Daytona Beach, Florida
May 18, 2025 3:46pm CST
I think I look a bit like a baby Queen Victoria in this photo. Sitting on my throne ready to command my subjects. i was four months old in the summer of 1957. My parents had friends who lived in Westbury, Connecticut and rented out rooms and bungalows to their Latvian friends. My mother chose to spend the summer with me there to avoid the terrible heat of NYC. My father worked during the week and would visit us on the weekends.
Sitting in that high chair heaven help my subjects if I gave out a cry and no one came. Then the bawling would start and things got kind of loud. My mother got a break on the weekends because I was daddy's princess and he spent at much time with me as he could. Let us not even discuss what happened on Monday mornings when I discovered daddy gone.
On the photo it says Sept 1957 because that was when the film was developed
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@DaddyEvil (148427)
• United States
18 May
I'm quite sure a daddy's girl could scream if daddy wasn't immediately in attendance. 
Your poor mom! 
It's a cute photo. 
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@RasmaSandra (85055)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
18 May
@DaddyEvil glad you liked this all I needed was a crown on my head
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@DaddyEvil (148427)
• United States
18 May
@RasmaSandra No, you didn't. You look quite regal in your chair.
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@celticeagle (174529)
• Boise, Idaho
18 May
You do have that same shape of the head, and the eyebrows are like those of the Queen I think. What a cute picture. I bet you didn't like daddy being gone on Monday morning one darned bit.
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@celticeagle (174529)
• Boise, Idaho
11h
@RasmaSandra .......Oh, ofcourse you did.
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@RasmaSandra (85055)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
12h
@celticegle I was too young to understand his coming and going but I am sure I blamed mom for it
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@LeaPea2417 (37854)
• Toccoa, Georgia
12h
Classic photos like that are so special.
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@RasmaSandra (85055)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
12h
@LeaPea2417 I knew that my every command would be fulfilled
@LindaOHio (188873)
• United States
19 May
That's a cute picture of a daddy's girl.
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@RasmaSandra (85055)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
12h
@LindaOHio thank you never could get enough time with my daddy
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@allknowing (145850)
• India
19 May
That pose does show you are ordering someone Lovely photo
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@RasmaSandra (85055)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
12h
@allknowing thank you I also had a high pitched voice so mom liked having me outside and not so close
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@RasmaSandra (85055)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
12h
@juliaacv I was a darling as long as I did not get cranky
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@rakski (136379)
• Philippines
11h
@RasmaSandra oh. He was a busy man but at least he commit the weekends to you
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@RasmaSandra (85055)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
12h
@rakski the only time dad stayed with us was when he had his summer vacation otherwise for him it was only the weekends
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@mom210 (9133)
• United States
11h
@RasmaSandra sounds like she was a good mommy. you were adorable
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@RasmaSandra (85055)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
18 May
@mom210 my mom spoiled me a lot she even made baby food for me including giving me freshly made beef broth to drink which made me have red cheeks and plenty of energy
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@RasmaSandra (85055)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
12h
@JudyEv I was such a late in life baby that both my parents could not get enough of enjoying me but it was daddy I preferred.
@RasmaSandra (85055)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
12h
@paigea thank you, My mom knew to put me outside in case i got cranky so she would not have the screams right in her ears
