[127] “Childe Harold,” canto iii., stanza 30.

[128] During the visit of the Prince of Wales to India.

[129] Her husband, the father of the Queen’s personal attendant, John Brown, had just died. See “More Leaves from a Journal,” p. 319.

[130]Secretary in the office of the Privy Purse.

[131] The Prince Consort’s head groom, who had come over with him to England.

[132] The Hon. Emily Caroline Hardinge, the Princess’ Lady-in-Waiting, died in London on the 4th of September, 1876.

[133] Written after the death of his daughter.

[134] The Grand Duke of Hesse was alarmingly ill.

[135] Of the Princess Charlotte of Prussia with the Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Meiningen.

[136] This memorandum does not go far enough. The Princess returned to the faith in which she was reared, and died in it, a devout Christian.