Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 2
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Life Of
Her Most Gracious Majesty
Edited with an Introduction by
Vol II
On the 29th of November the Queen went on one of her visits to her nobility. We are told, and we can easily believe, these visits were very popular and eagerly contested for. In her Majesty's choice of localities it would seem as if she loved sometimes to retrace her early footsteps by going again with her husband to the places where she had been, as the young Princess, with the Duchess of Kent. The Queen went at this time to Burghley, the seat of the Marquis of Exeter. The tenantry of the different noblemen whose lands she passed through lined the roads, the mayors of the various towns presented addresses, the school children sang the National Anthem.
At Burghley, too, Queen Elizabeth had been before Queen Victoria. She also had visited a Cecil. The Maiden Queen had travelled under difficulties. The country roads of her day had been so nearly impassable that her only means of transit had been to use a pillion behind her Lord Steward. Her seat in the chapel was pointed out to the Queen and Prince Albert when they went there for morning prayers. Whether or not both queens whiled away a rainy day by going over the whole manor-house, down to the kitchen, we cannot say; but it is not likely that her Majesty's predecessor underwent the ordeal to her gravity of passing through a gentleman's bedroom and finding his best wig and whiskers displayed upon a block on a chest of drawers. And we are not aware that Queen Elizabeth witnessed such an interesting family rite as that which her Majesty graced by her presence. The youngest daughter of the Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter was christened in the chapel, at six o'clock in the evening, before the Queen, and was named for her Lady Victoria Cecil, while Prince Albert stood as godfather to the child. After the baptism the Queen kissed her little namesake, and Prince Albert presented her with a gold cup bearing the inscription, To Lady Victoria Cecil, from her godfather Albert. At dinner the newly-named child was duly toasted by the Queen's command.
Sarah Tytler
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IN TWO VOLUMES
CONTENTS.
CHAP.
LIST OF STEEL PLATES.
QUEEN VICTORIA.
CHAPTER I.
ROYAL PROGRESSES TO BURGHLEY, STOWE, AND STRATHFIELDSAYE.
CHAPTER II.
THE QUEEN'S POWDER BALL.
CHAPTER III.
THE QUEEN'S FIRST VISIT TO GERMANY.
CHAPTER IV.
RAILWAY SPECULATION—FAILURE OF THE POTATO CROP—SIR ROBERT PEEL'S RESOLUTIONS—BIRTH OF PRINCESS HELENA—VISIT OF IBRAHIM PASHA.
CHAPTER V.
AUTUMN YACHTING EXCURSIONS—THE SPANISH MARRIAGES—WINTER VISITS.
CHAPTER VI.
INSTALLATION OF PRINCE ALBERT AS CHANCELLOR OF CAMBRIDGE.
CHAPTER VII.
THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO THE WESTERN ISLANDS OP SCOTLAND AND STAY AT ARDVERIKIE.
CHAPTER VIII.
THE FRENCH FUGITIVES—THE PEOPLE'S CHARTER.
CHAPTER IX.
THE QUEEN'S FIRST STAY AT BALMORAL.
CHAPTER X.
PUBLIC AND DOMESTIC INTERESTS—FRESH ATTACK UPON THE QUEEN.
CHAPTER XI.
THE QUEEN'S FIRST VISIT TO IRELAND.
CHAPTER XII.
SCOTLAND AGAIN—GLASGOW AND DEE-SIDE.
CHAPTER XIII.
OPENING OF THE NEW COAL EXCHANGE—THE DEATH OF QUEEN ADELAIDE.
CHAPTER XIV.
PREPARATION FOR THE EXHIBITION—BIRTH OF THE DUKE OF CONNAUGHT—THE BLOW DEALT BY FATE—FOREIGN TROUBLES—ENGLISH ART.
CHAPTER XV.
THE DEATHS OF SIR ROBERT PEEL, THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE, AND LOUIS PHILIPPE.
CHAPTER XVI.
THE QUEEN'S FIRST STAY AT HOLYROOD—LIFE IN THE HIGHLANDS—THE DEATH OF THE QUEEN OF THE BELGIANS.
CHAPTER XVII.
THE PAPAL BULL—THE GREAT EXHIBITION.
CHAPTER XVIII.
THE QUEEN'S ACCOUNT OF THE OPENING OF THE EXHIBITION.
CHAPTER XIX.
THE QUEEN'S "RESTORATION BALL" AND THE "GUILDHALL BALL."
CHAPTER XX.
ROYAL VISITS TO LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER—CLOSE OF THE EXHIBITION.
CHAPTER XXI.
DISASTERS—YACHTING TRIPS—THE DEATH OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.
CHAPTER XXII.
THE IRON DUKE'S FUNERAL.
CHAPTER XXIII.
THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON III. AND THE EMPRESS EUGÉNIE—FIRE AT WINDSOR— THE BIRTH OF PRINCE LEOPOLD.
CHAPTER XXIV.
THE EASTERN QUESTION—APPROACHING WAR—GROSS INJUSTICE TO PRINCE ALBERT—DEATH OF MARIA DA GLORIA.
CHAPTER XXV.
THE BATTLE OF INKERMANN—FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE—THE DEATH OF THE EMPEROR NICHOLAS.
CHAPTER XXVII.
DEATH OP LORD RAGLAN—VISIT OF THE QUEEN AND PRINCE ALBERT TO THE EMPEROR AND EMPRESS OF THE FRENCH—FALL OF SEBASTOPOL.
CHAPTER XXVIII.
BETROTHAL OF THE PRINCESS ROYAL—QUEEN'S SPEECH TO THE SOLDIERS RETURNED FROM THE CRIMEA—BALMORAL.
CHAPTER XXIX.
CHAPTER XXX.
THE MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCESS ROYAL.
CHAPTER XXXI.
DEATH OF THE DUTCHESS D'ORLEANS—THE PRINCE CONSORT'S VISIT TO GERMANY—THE QUEEN AND PRINCE CONSORT'S VISIT TO PRINCE AND PRINCESS FREDERICK WILLIAM AT BABELSBERG.
CHAPTER XXXII.
BIRTH OF PRINCE WILLIAM OF PRUSSIA—DEATH OF PRINCE HOHENLOHE— VOLUNTEER REVIEWS—SECOND VISIT TO COBURG—BETROTHAL OF PRINCESS ALICE.
CHAPTER XXXIII.
DEATH OF THE DUCHESS OF KENT.
CHAPTER XXXIV.
LAST VISIT TO IRELAND—HIGHLAND EXCURSIONS—MEETING OF THE PRINCE OF WALES AND THE PRINCESS ALEXANDRA OF DENMARK—DEATH OF THE KINO OF PORTUGAL AND HIS BROTHERS
CHAPTER XXXV.
THE DEATH OF THE PRINCE CONSORT.
CHAPTER XXXVI.
THE WITHDRAWAL TO OSBORNE—THE PRINCE CONSORT'S FUNERAL.
CHAPTER XXXVII.
THE FIRST MONTHS OF WIDOWHOOD—MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCE OF WALES, ETC., ETC.
CHAPTER XXXVIII.
CHAPTER XXXIX.
STAY AT HOLYROOD—DEATHS OF PRINCESS HOHENLOHE AND OF PRINCE FREDERICK OF DARMSTADT—MARRIAGE OF THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH.
CHAPTER XL.
BIRTH OF THE FIRST GREAT-GRANDCHILD—MARRIAGE OF THE DUKE OF ALBANY— CONCLUSION.