[xinuc]

Charity and the Great Hunger in Ireland: The Kindness of Strangers. By Christine Kinealy

https://books.google.co.id/books?id=GnksAQAAQBAJ&lpg=PR4&hl=...

> He had originally offered £10,000 to the British Relief Association and some ships laden with provisions, but had been advised by British diplomats that British Royal protocol meant that nobody should contribute more than the Queen. It was suggested that he gave half the sum contributed by Victoria.

[lolinder]

That was published in 2013. Do you have a physical copy that would allow you to see footnote 64 and see where this author got the story?

(The Google book has a lot of footnote 64s at the bottom, but it's impossible to see which corresponds to which chapter or to know if the 64 we're looking for is even there at all.)

[westonmyers]

Chapter 5-64: The Albion. A Journal of News, Politics and Literature, 21 July 1849.