Ever your devoted Niece,
Victoria R.
Footnote 97: The house occupied by the Duc de Bordeaux.
Footnote 98: Thomas, Lord Lynedoch, had died the previous day, aged ninety-five. He highly distinguished himself in the Peninsula and in Holland, and received the thanks of Parliament, and a Peerage in 1814.
Footnote 99: He died in July 1845.
Queen Victoria to the Earl of Aberdeen.
THE SPANISH MARRIAGE
Windsor Castle, 28th December 1843.
The Queen has been much amused to see by Sir Robert Gordon's despatch of the 15th, the extreme fright of Prince Metternich at the proposed marriage of Queen Isabel with Count Trapani,100 but she regrets that Sir Robert tried to make excuses for the conduct we have pursued, which the Queen thinks requires no apology.
Footnote 100: See ante, p. [488], note 55.