CONTENTS.

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[I.]The Queen’s Immediate Predecessors[9]
[II.]Childhood and Education[28]
[III.]Accession to the Throne[41]
[IV.]Love and Politics[56]
[V.]Rocks Ahead[71]
[VI.]The Prince[79]
[VII.]The Queen and Peel[94]
[VIII.]Stockmar[104]
[IX.]The Nursery[119]
[X.]Home Life.—Osborne and Balmoral[132]
[XI.]Forty-Three to Forty-Eight[144]
[XII.]Palmerston[156]
[XIII.]Peace and War[173]
[XIV.]A Nation of Shopkeepers[192]
[XV.]The Valley of the Shadow of Death[201]
[XVI.]Domestic Life after 1861[215]
[XVII.]The Warp and Woof of Home and Politics[227]
[XVIII.]The Queen and the Empire[244]
[Chronological Table of Events][257]
[Books of Reference][261]