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[List of Etched Portraits] (In certain versions of this etext [in certain browsers] clicking on the image will bring up a larger version.) (etext transcriber's note) |
R O Y A L T Y
IN ALL AGES
T. F. THISELTON-DYER, M.A. Oxon.
QUEEN ELIZABETH
R O Y A L T Y
I N A L L A G E S
The Amusements, Eccentricities, Ac-
complishments, Superstitions, and
Frolics of the Kings and
Queens of Europe
BY
T. F. THISELTON-DYER, M.A. Oxon.
WITH SIX ETCHED PORTRAITS FROM
CONTEMPORARY ENGRAVINGS
LONDON
JOHN C. NIMMO, Ltd.
NEW YORK: CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
M D C C C C I I I
Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co.
At the Ballantyne Press
PREFACE
It has been remarked that to write of the private and domestic acts of monarchs while still alive savours of scandal and bad taste, but when dead their traits of character, however strange and eccentric they may have been in their lifetime, at once become matter of history. Adopting this rule, we have confined ourselves in the present work to dealing with royalty in the past; and, in a field so wide, we have, as far as possible, endeavoured to make each chapter concise and representative of the subject treated. The following pages, whilst illustrating the marvellous versatility of royalty, when seriously analysed tend to show how vastly superior the latter-day sovereigns have been when compared with those of earlier times, many of whose extraordinary freaks and vagaries as much degraded the throne, as the refined and cultivated tastes of her late Majesty Queen Victoria elevated and beautified it.
T. F. THISELTON-DYER.
CONTENTS
LIST OF ETCHED PORTRAITS
| [QUEEN ELIZABETH] | Frontispiece | |
| [EDWARD I.] | To face page | 46 |
| [EDWARD III.] | ” | 136 |
| [CHARLES II.] | ” | 210 |
| [CHARLES IX., King of France] | ” | 240 |
| [LOUIS XIV.] | ” | 348 |