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 Family of England was 
 not in a happy or pros- 
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 King George III. was in seclu- 
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 had not loved as they ought. Wil- 
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 dull, by arbitrary parents making 
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 sole hope of the lloyal House had 
 been the Princess (Minrlotte, the 
 only child of a most unhappy mar- 
 riage, but in herself a sweet and 
 
 promising young woman, 
 
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 many claims upon tenderness and 
 sympathy of the nation. So long 
 as she lived all national require- 
 ments were satisfied on the points 
 of heirship. She unirried wisely 
 and happily, not only making an 
 admirable choice for herself, but 
 bringing forward unawares, out of 
 the obscurity of princely life in 
 Germany, and from amidst a cniwd 
 of petty princes, equally distin- 
 guished and undistinguished, a 
 family whi(^h has had a greater 
 place since in the affairs of Chris- 
 tendom than perliaps any other — 
 the family of H^ixe-Coburg-Gotha. 
 Prince Leopold, the husband thus 
 chosen, should the family faculty 
 of ct)mbin'ing the greatest and 
 most Ostentatious for all life, with 
 great devotion to ijnljlif idVairs, 
 and that political penetration and 
 sagacity which make a statesman, 
 as much as an eye for form and 
 color make an artist, anil every- 
 thing bid fair for the happiest 
 lioyal life that England perhaps 
 had ever known. The historical 
 student looking on after these 
 
 noble occupation, without ambi- 
 tious thought or desire either foi- 
 aggrandizement or added splendor 
 in its own person, was something 
 new to the world - too fine an ex- 
 periment, perhaps to be worked 
 out all at once. But in a little more 
 than a year the essay ended, the 
 young household was broken up^ 
 and all these beautiful hopes were 
 at an end. Princess Charlotte died, 
 and the Koyal house found itself 
 childless. There were still many 
 bi'others. it is true, but they were 
 beyond their prime, and all un- 
 married except the two eldest, who 
 had no surviving children. The 
 situation was a startling one, all 
 the more for l)eing so unexpected, 
 for the happy mari'iage of the Prin- 
 cess Charlotte seemed to have set- 
 tled matters in the most satisfacto- 
 ry way. Within a few months of 
 her death, however, several mar- 
 riages took place in the lioyal 
 family, the most important of 
 which was that of the Duke of 
 Kent, the fourth son of George 
 III., who married a sister of 
 Prince Leopold, the Princess of 
 Leiningen, a young widow with 
 two children, in the month of May, 
 1818, Of this marriage was born 
 Victoria, the happiest and most 
 
 brief chapter to hold ' the place of 
 a sketch for a great picture, as if 
 the mighty artifices of the world 
 had tried the combination first in 
 a momentary episode before touch- 
 ing the larger, more permanent 
 cause. As A'^ictoria and Albert were 
 a generation, so were Charlotte 
 and Leopold in 1817 — good, true, 
 
 against whom no sedition has ever 
 risen, nor evil whisper ever breath- 
 ed ; whom her severest critics would 
 stand for ,to the death as stoutly 
 as her dearest friends; and who 
 could at any time of hef long reign, 
 from ther accession to this day, 
 even when crowns were falling 
 around her, and all the demons of 
 
 up a p'lre household, a high stand- 
 ard of fife, in the midst of the care- 
 less England of those days, in 
 which dissipation was more wild, 
 and vice more undisguised, than 
 now. The spectre of conscien- 
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 attended from end to end of her 
 country, secure of notl\ing but uni- 
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 whether as much could be said of 
 any other monarch who has ever 
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 The Prinooss Victoria was born 
 within tho homely brick wiills of 
 Kensington P-il'Vce, on the 'iith of 
 Miiy, 18 .M>. She alone of the lit- 
 tle f^roup of Iloyiil (ihiklren born 
 in that year was Enjuflisli by actual 
 birth. The present Duke of Cam- 
 bridge and the son of the Duke of 
 Cumberland, now ex-Kinj? of Han- 
 over, were both born in Ciermany, 
 and so was a hapless baby which 
 would have stood first ain()ng tliem 
 h id she lived— a little daughter of 
 the Duke of (Uarence, who stood 
 next in succession to the throne. 
 It would seem that Providence had 
 decided one way or other th'it Eng- 
 land was certainly to have a 
 Queen, for the (diildren of King 
 William IV., too, were all girls. 
 These children, however, nil died; 
 and though it was by nt) means 
 sure at the time of Princess Vic- 
 toria's birth that she would be the 
 future Queen, yet she came first 
 in' her generaticm, though with 
 many possibilities against hsT. For 
 it was not unlikely that George 
 IV. might marry again on the 
 death of his acknowledged qu«en, 
 whom he hated ; and as a matter of 
 fact, second children were born to 
 the Duke of Clarence, afterward 
 William IV., after the birth of the 
 Princess Victoria. There was how- 
 ever, sufficient probability of her 
 succession to fill the minds of all 
 belonging to her with a thrill of 
 excitement beyond that which 
 'greets every unborn child when 
 the little Princess came into the 
 world. In the letter of her moth- 
 er's mother, the old Duchess of 
 Saxe-Coburg, written on hearing of 
 this event, this sentiment is very 
 apparent. "Again a Charlotte," 
 she writes, ''destined, perhaps, to 
 play a great part one day if a 
 brother is not born to take it out of 
 her hands. The English like 
 Queens." No happier augury 
 could be said over the cradle of a 
 
 sovereign, and nothing more true. 
 The English have cause to like 
 Queens; for England has never 
 been greater, inore famous, or full 
 of genius than wht^n her monarchs 
 were women. And though (leorge 
 III., with his domestic virtues, had 
 been a popular king, he was the 
 only one of his race who had any 
 pretentions to his name. The 
 House of Hanover had not been 
 beloved. It wanted a woman to 
 conciliate and charm tho heart of 
 the nation, and to call' forth that 
 chivalry which is so good an aux- 
 iliary of h)yalty. Princess Char- 
 lotte had already done something. 
 She had made herself dear and sa- 
 cred, if by nothing else, by her 
 death. The country had mourned 
 for her as for the child of its 
 hopes. And now again there was 
 hope in its present fortunate shape 
 — reborn 
 
 The Princess Victoria's training, 
 however, was very different from 
 the irregular, unhappy education 
 of her unfortunate cousin and pre- 
 decessor. Except the splendid 
 prospects, there was nothing hap- 
 py in the external circumstances 
 among which her life began. When 
 she was only a few months old her 
 father died, closely followed by his 
 father, poor old King George, 
 whose life for some time past had 
 been of little value to himself or 
 any one. Before this, it is record- 
 ed that "The Regent was not kind 
 to his brother," and when the 
 Duke of Kent had left his family 
 deprived of all means of existence, 
 "thus the position of the mother of 
 the future sovereign, a young Ger- 
 man Princess so soon left alone in 
 this strange, and not always very 
 genial country, was far from con- 
 soling. Her brother, Prince Leo- 
 pold, hastened to her in her dis- 
 tress, and stood by her in all her 
 futui'e difficulties, few women have 
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 kind bnttlier, tlu' Diu-hcHri of K. lit, 
 th()U;^h tlu* motluu' of tlio fiitun^ 
 QiUMMi, WHS ull hut unfi'K'udcd in ii 
 homo witli wliit^li slu* had as yet 
 but littlo time to K^'t acquainted. 
 Shi^ was a forcif^UiT, armistonuHl 
 tojlilTiu'cnt ways of livin; and had 
 not even the oasy ohisiioity of 
 youth, which accustoms itself to 
 anything, for shi' was alrcatly ovor 
 thirty whmi Hh« marrioil the Duke, 
 and whil(M)ccupyinj^ HO great a po- 
 sition, sh(; was comparatively poor. 
 Had she withdrawn with her child 
 to her own country, to hrijij^ the 
 little prince- ip iimong her own 
 people, cheaply and kindly, far 
 aA'iiy ironi the criticisms and ex- 
 travagancdes, the lute h«nas and 
 hustle of English lil'o, who could 
 have wonderedy but ihe Duchess 
 had the temperate Cobiirg blood 
 in her veins, and shared the sound 
 sense and judgment of luu" race. 
 She never forgot that hiT eiglit- 
 mouths-old babyjWHS the lirst prin- 
 cess of the blood, English above 
 all things, and iin[KMalively re- 
 quiring an English education. And 
 sh'' began her long career of self- 
 denial by steadily remaining in 
 England, though far from her 
 frienils and everything that was 
 most dear to her,atthe little palace 
 at Kensington, where the child 
 \md been born, and there the early 
 days of the Princess were chiefly 
 spent. More happy than most chil- 
 dren in her position, the little heir- 
 ess of England had the society of 
 an elder sister, wiiose suj)erior age 
 must, in those innocent days have 
 neutralized the immense differ- 
 ence of position, and given some- 
 thing of the sweet natural humil.ty 
 of a younger child in a well-regu- 
 lated household to this most im- 
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 unconscious of liei own greatness. 
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 "the tendiu'ent of friends, und com- 
 l)anion to the Cjueeu during her 
 wIjoIo life. They were brought up ^ 
 together in <piiet old Kensington, ? 
 in the Hwe<»ter solitude of C'Tare- / 
 mont, th(i house where Prince Leo- 
 {)old had spent his short marricMl 
 life, which belonged to him, and in 
 which ho often received hi.s M'id- 
 owed sister and her little girl. They 
 were there in I' ummer of W^4., 
 and so bright mu.\ hat have been, 
 that its brightne''.s still lasts in re- 
 collection, th'"igli the little Prin- 
 cess was bu' I ve years old. "Those 
 days of Claremonl," ihe Queen 
 herself lells us, "were the happiest 
 days of her ciiildhood." In die 
 (^uiet, rcitired froui all the observa- 
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 domestic peace Avhich aiTords a cer- 
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 husbjiud and father. Of all the 
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 centre of life ;.8 in that of a tender 
 mother who is a widow. It does 
 no,t require the superior imporf- 
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 this concentration of all interest in 
 one, but here was every induce- 
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 the mental and moral training of 
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 seeing eyes of the man who, with 
 the sincerest desire for the welfare 
 of England, and a longing, no 
 doubt, made all the stronger by the 
 melancholy failure of his personal 
 hopes, to give to the country which 
 had received him a kindly and no- 
 ble sovereign, had at the same tim.» 
 a natural wish to advance his own 
 family, worthy by constitution an I 
 (rharacter as it had already proved 
 itself. Another child, standing to 
 him in exactly the same relation- 
 shif) as the little Victoria, had been 
 born just after her in the little 
 Ducal Court, at Saxe-Coburg, in 
 the cheerful country-house of the 
 Kosenau — a child occupying ex- 
 actly the same position to which 
 he had been himself born, as the 
 little Princess did that of his 
 young wife. So early lost, what 
 wonder if the heart of the young 
 Statesman, still sore from that 
 wound, pleased itself with the 
 thuugiit of another union which 
 should carry out all his abortive 
 hopes, while the children wore 
 still in th'ir cradles; this idei 
 seems to have comaiuuii-ated itself 
 to dl about tlieui; tJie family were 
 in constant coiumanicition, the 
 young m.)thor.s <ixch,inging those 
 pleasant exueriences and bits of 
 nursery news, as mothers will do 
 as long as the species last. All the 
 duinurs and grow uigs of "The little 
 Mayflower," as the Princess was 
 called, by the kind Germau kin- 
 folk, were recorded with fond sim- 
 plicity for the pleasure of the old 
 grandmother at home. • I'he good 
 German nurse, vt\\o passed from 
 one house to another as her ser- 
 vices w^re wanted, "could not suffi- 
 ciently describe what a dear little 
 love" the baby at Kengington was, 
 and the baby of the Rosenau had 
 the enthusiastic pen of his moth- 
 er to do him fuil' justice. Albert 
 was of extraordinary beauty — this 
 impartial historian declared; he had 
 
 great blue eyes, dimi)les on each 
 cheek, three teeth, and at eight 
 months old was already beginning 
 to walk." Great news — enough to 
 make the other nurs* ty thrill with 
 emulation as these notes were com- 
 pared; what a compensation lies in 
 this sweet babble of children, for 
 women's ears at least, for both the 
 poor ladies who wrote had troubles 
 enough; the one in England had to 
 hold her own modest courage in 
 face of the criticism and doubtful 
 friendliness of a whole foreign so- 
 ciety, in face of poverty and loneli- 
 ness; the other was on the brink 
 of a separation from home and 
 children altogether; a dark back 
 ground full of human trouble and 
 s.;rrow comes behind the two an- 
 gelic heads, that look out, wonder- 
 ing, with blue eyes wide open at 
 thti spectator. But could anythiiig 
 be more charming and touching 
 than this baby pair? 
 
 Naturally there are but few re- 
 cords of this early period left. The 
 Queen's own amused recollection, 
 when she tirst takes travelling with 
 hfir another little Princess Victor- 
 ia, her eldest child, and sees her- 
 self once more^bowing to the spec- 
 tators in baby state from the win- 
 dow of the carriage, is almost all 
 the little twinkle of reminiscence 
 which we have. "It put me so in 
 mind of myself when I was the lit- 
 tle Princess, she says, with frank 
 simplicity which has made Her 
 Majesty's friendly confidence to 
 her people so popular. Still, how- 
 ever, though an ever-growing in- 
 , terest accompanied the littie Prin- 
 cess wherever she went, her posi- 
 tion was not assured. Once more in 
 the back-ground behind the little 
 figure, yet threatening to eclipse 
 her, was the sha low of another 
 family in which things did not go 
 BO well with the children when the 
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 daughter. She wrote to her sister- 
 in-law in words of the most touch- 
 ing resignation, "My children 
 
 are dead," said 
 "but yours lives, 
 too." So many 
 
 the poor lady, 
 and she is mine, 
 griefs, so many 
 
 dyings, went to make the throned 
 estate and great fortune of the lit- 
 tle Victoria. Her infantine face, 
 all innocent and fearless — the 
 same face which had come down 
 from generation to generation 
 through all the line of Brunswick 
 — WHS the first countenance for 
 many yf^ars upon which there was 
 no shade. 
 
 A few years later, when she was 
 nine years old, Sir Walter Scott re- 
 cords in hiij diary that he had din- 
 ed with the Duchess of Kent, and 
 had been presented by Prince Leo- 
 pold "to the little Princess Victo- 
 ria — the Heir-Apparent to the 
 House as things now stand. This 
 little lady," he adds, "is educated, 
 with much care, and watched so 
 closely tliat no busy maid has a 
 moment to whisper, 'You are Heir 
 of England!' I suspect that if we 
 could dissect the little heart, we 
 should find that some pigeon or 
 other bird of the air had carried 
 the matter. She is fair, like the 
 Koyal Family." Sir Walter's idea, 
 however, had as little foundation 
 in fact as such surmises often have. 
 The little Princess neither at that 
 time nor for many years after knew 
 
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 anything of her pre-eminence. She doubt on this account the discipline 
 
 under which she was trained be- 
 came more severe. 
 
 A much prettier story, and one 
 of the authenticity of which there 
 can be no doubt, gives a descrip- 
 tion of the way in which her future 
 rank was revealed to her. No one 
 had been allowed, as is mentioned 
 above, to breathe a word of this in 
 Uie child's ear. But events now 
 began to happen which changed 
 her position, to a certain extent. 
 King (ieorge TV. died, which 
 
 was brought up with the 
 economy and regularity, 
 dren of much lower posii' .... rare- 
 ly are, and wis taught at an early 
 age to restrain her expenditure 
 within the limits of her income, 
 even when that income was but a 
 child's pocket money. Miisa Mar- 
 tineau, an authority not likely to 
 err in the way of enthusiasm, gives 
 us in her sketch the Duchess of 
 Kent, an anecdote current at that 
 time, which illustrates the careful- 
 
 ness of the training better than it 
 does the abstract statement which 
 precedes it, that the Princess "was 
 reared in as much honesty and care 
 about money-matters as any citi- 
 zen's child." Very fow citizen's 
 children, we believe, ever were or 
 could be so rigidly guarded from 
 the extra shilling of expenditure. 
 "It became known at Tunbridge ^ 
 Wells that the Priucess had been '% 
 unable to buy a box at the Bazaar 
 because she had hpent her money. 
 At this Bazaar she had bought 
 presents for almost all her rela- 
 tions, and had laid out her last 
 shilling, when ehe remembered one 
 cousin more, and saw a box priced 
 half a crown which would suit him. 
 The shop people, of course, placed 
 the box with the other purchases, 
 but the little lady's governess ad- 
 monished them by saying, 'No; 
 you see the Priucess has not got 
 the money; therefore, of course, 
 she cannot buy the box.' This be- 
 ing perceived, the next offer was to 
 lay by the box till it could be pur- 
 chased, and the answer was, 'Oh, 
 well, if you will be so good as to 
 do that.' On quarter-day, before ^ 
 seven in the morning, the Princess * 
 appeared on her donkey to claim 
 her purchase." This reads like a 
 story out of Sandford and Merton. 
 But the Princess Victoria came, 
 by her father's side, of a lavish 
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 brought the Princess a stop nearer 
 to the throne, and there was no 
 longer any reasonable prospect 
 that King William could have chil- 
 dren to succeed hiin. Thus the 
 child of Kensington Palace became 
 beyond all doubt the next in suc- 
 cession, with (mly an old man of 
 sixty-five, of indiffereut health, 
 intervening. And she her.self was 
 only twelve, and her nearest En- 
 glish relative was notof a character 
 to reassure her friends. In these 
 circumstances a Bill was brought 
 into Parliament to make the Duch- 
 ess of Kent Regent in case her 
 daughter should be called upon to 
 ascend the throne before she be- 
 came of age. When these public 
 precautions were taken, it was 
 thought necessary to inform tho 
 little girl herself of her true posi- 
 tion — that she was not merely one of 
 a band of Princes and Princesses, 
 the younger members of the fami- 
 ly, but the first among them — the 
 future Head of the Race. She was 
 in the midst of her lessons — some- 
 what surprised, it would seem, at 
 the grave work required from her, 
 which was not expected from the 
 other Princesses — when this great 
 intimation was made to her. The 
 story " told in a letter from her 
 governess, the Baroness Selwyn, to 
 the Queen, written in 1854, and 
 apparently recalling to her the in- 
 cidents of her youth : 
 
 "I ask ycur Majesty's leave to 
 cite some remarkable words of 
 your Majesty's when only twelve 
 years old, while the Regency Bill 
 was in progress. I then said to the 
 Duchess of Kent that now, for the 
 first time, your Majesty ought to 
 know your place in the Succession. 
 Her Royal Highness argued with 
 me, and I put the genealogical 
 table into the historical book.When 
 Ml-. Davys (the Queen's instructor 
 afier the Lishop of Peterborough) 
 was gone, the Princess Victoria 
 
 opened the book again as usual, 
 ajid, seeing the additional paper, 
 said, 'I never saw that before.' 'It 
 was thought necessary you should, 
 Princess,' I answered. 'I see I am 
 nearer the throne than I thought.' 
 'So it is, Madam,' I said. After 
 some moments the Princess resum- 
 ed; 'Now many a child would 
 boast, but they don't know the 
 difficulty. There is much splendor, 
 but there is much responsibility.' 
 The Princess, having lifted up the 
 forefinger of her right hand while 
 she spoke, gave me that little hand, 
 saying, 'I will be good. I under- 
 stand now why you urged me so 
 much to learn Latin. My cousins 
 Augusta and Mary never did, but 
 you told me Latin is the founda- 
 tion of English grammar, and of 
 all the elegant expressions, and I 
 learned it as you wished it, but I 
 understand all better now;' and the 
 littlQ.Princess gave me her hand, 
 reputing, 'I will be good.' " 
 
 It(is seldom that a little scene 
 like this stands out so distinct in 
 the early story even of a life des- 
 tined to greatness. The hush of 
 awe upon the child; the childish 
 application of this great secret to 
 the obtruse study of Latin, which 
 was not recjuired from the others; 
 the immediate resolution, so sim- 
 ple, yet containing all the wisest 
 sage could have counselled or the 
 greatest hero vowed, "I will be 
 good," make a perfect little crea- 
 ture. It is the clearest appearance 
 of the child Queen in her own 
 person that we can get through the 
 soft obscurity of those childish 
 years. The same hand which placed 
 itself so solemnly in the anxious 
 guardian's hand, to give weight to 
 the simple vow, inscribed long 
 after, in full maturity, a few words 
 of recollection upon the margin of 
 this narrative. "I cried much on 
 hearing it," writes the Queen. No 
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 hance the effect of this touching 
 scene. 
 
 After this wonderful revelation 
 the school-room routine began 
 again, the lessons were learned, 
 the happy monotony of the child's 
 existence was resumed. All was 
 as modest and retired, as quiet as 
 ever. The little Heiress of England 
 was not permitted to take part in 
 pageant of her uncle's cor.onation, 
 or brought forward too soon iuto 
 the glare of day. After this date 
 the course of her education widen- 
 ed, and she was made acquainted 
 with various features of her own 
 country, making a series of visits 
 and expeditions throughout Eng- 
 land to many of the most interest- 
 ing towns, cathedrals, and other 
 remarkable places. And whenever 
 the little maiden went, as was 
 natural, she was the centre of at- 
 tractwn, • A creature so young and 
 so highly placed, with already the 
 shadow of a crown upon her, drew 
 all eyes, and gave a charm of sym- 
 pathetic nature which ennobled it 
 to the ordinary curiosity of the 
 crowd. Something kinder than 
 curiosity, a feeling more warm and 
 genial than the vulgar love of a 
 spectacle, ,drew gazers out upon 
 her path wherever she moved. And 
 thus her mother accustomed her, 
 unconsciously, to the multitude of 
 eyes that were to watch her every 
 movement, and to the often weari- 
 some, if sometimes exciting, details 
 of a public life. There does not 
 seem any appearance that in her 
 early days the Queen showed any 
 of that distaste for the public 
 observation which is the greatest 
 reproach that any one has made 
 against her in her elder days. Diffi- 
 culties of all kinds, however, as 
 was natural, beset her youth path, 
 Her position was infinitely more 
 delicate and critical than had she 
 been the daughter of the reigning 
 Sovereign holding a natural place 
 
 in his family. The revelations of 
 the late Mr. Greville, questionable 
 as they are, both in good taste and 
 social fidelity, show painfully 
 enough some of the early troubles 
 to which the Princess, and especi- 
 ally her mother, was exposed. The 
 King took dire ofEence at the wise 
 restraint under which the young 
 Princess was brought up, and so 
 far forgot what was due to a lady, 
 and his guest, as to upbraid the 
 Duchess of Kent at his own table 
 for keeping her young daugliter as 
 much as she could out of the un- 
 wholesome air of the Court. When 
 we read of this scene, of the 
 Queen's confusion and the Prin- 
 cess's tears and the painful family 
 squabble revealed to all the gos- 
 siping, whispering world, we can 
 realize better what difficulties must 
 have been in the way of such a 
 serious education, and such a seclu- 
 sion from courtiers, flatteries, and 
 Royal bad manners, as made the 
 Princess Victoria, when she came 
 to the throne, the admiration of all 
 who surrounded her. Evidently, 
 tcj her conscientious mother and 
 guardian the charge of conducting 
 her young mind safe and spotless 
 through all these dizzy paths to 
 the great elevation which awaited 
 her, was inducement enough to 
 bear all things, and follow steadily 
 the course cnalked out, whatever 
 angry King or impertinent critic 
 could say. 
 
 On the other hand, while the 
 Duchess was blan ed for keeping 
 the young Princess out of the buzz 
 of the Court, she was equall7 
 blamed for the little expeditions, 
 so profitable to all parties, by 
 . which the young lady was made 
 acquainted with her country, and 
 become to some degree known, so 
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 all vulgar contact with the crowd; 
 it was a ''vigorous seclusion." She 
 took her to see a beautiful cathe- 
 dral or a historical beautiful house; 
 it was an attempt at a Royal 
 progress. So the critics contra- 
 dicted each other. And in the 
 meantime Kensington Palace held 
 its own with a firmness not less 
 remarkable than the purity and 
 gravity of the aims which were 
 pursued. The system of travel and 
 intercourse with the world, which 
 has been so largely adopted in the 
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 mix with different classes, to learn 
 and acquire experience among 
 p. en, than his future bride could 
 bo. He was more free even than 
 though he himself occupied the 
 great [wsition of heir to England. 
 He could move lightly about the 
 world, unencumbered by pomp, 
 unattended by observation; ami 
 over him, as over hi.s cousin, the 
 wise supervision of his uncle was 
 extended. So long as they were 
 both children, nothing further 
 could come of this; but it is very 
 
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 Victoria never loft England, not- 
 withstanding the crowd of kind 
 relations whom she possessed in 
 Germany, and the interest which 
 that country must have had to her 
 as her mother's birthplace, and the 
 home of the cousins of whom she 
 had heard so much, and in one of 
 whom she was soon to have so 
 close an interest. Since the pub- 
 lication of the Prince Consort's 
 life, the story of the young Prince 
 in his early years becomes doubly 
 rich and interesting. In it is a 
 double existence that is thus set 
 before us. Scarcely more were tli^ 
 interests of the Crown of England 
 considered in Kensington than 
 they were in Coburg, where, from 
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 place at Westmin iter 
 Abbey on June 28th, 
 l&yB. The same au- 
 thority whom we have 
 just quoted — Miss Martineau — 
 gives a rather grapliic, though 
 in many respects very disagree- 
 able account of the scene. "The 
 sight of the rapid filling of the 
 Abbey was enough to go for." 
 She says: 
 
 "■The stone architecture contrast- 
 ed finely with the gay colors of the 
 multitude. From my high seat I 
 commanded the whole north tran- 
 sept, the area with the throne, and 
 many portions of galleries, and the 
 balconies which were called the 
 vaultings. Except a mere sprink- 
 ling of oddities, everybody was in 
 full dress. The scarlet of the mil- 
 itary officers mixed in well, and 
 the groups of the clergy were dig- 
 nified; but to an unaccustomed eye 
 the prevalence of Court dresses 
 had a curious effect. I was per- 
 petually taking whole groups of 
 gentlemen for Quakers, till I recol- 
 lected myself. The Earl Mar- 
 shall's assistants, called Gold- 
 sticks, looked well froria above, 
 lightly flitting about in white 
 breeches, silk stockings, blue-laced 
 frocks, and white sashes. The 
 throne- -covered, as was its foot- 
 stool, with cloth of gold — stood on 
 an elevation of four steps in the 
 
 
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 ess took her seat in the north tian- 
 sept opposite at a quarter to seven; 
 and three of the bishops came next. 
 From that time the peers and their 
 ladies arrived faster and faster. 
 Each peeress was conducted by 
 two (Voldsticks, one of whom hand- 
 ed her to her seat, and the other 
 bore and arranged her train on her 
 lap, and saw that her coronet, foot- 
 stool, and book Avere comfortably 
 placed .... About nine the first 
 gleam of the sun started into the 
 Abbey, and presently .veiled 
 down to the peeresses. I have nev- 
 er before seen the full effect of dia- 
 monds. As the light travelled each 
 lady bhune out as a rainbow. The 
 brightness, vastness, and dreamy 
 magnificence of the scene produc- 
 ed a strange effect of exhaustion 
 and sleepiness .... The guns told 
 when the Queen set forth; and 
 there was unusual animation. The 
 Goldsticks flitted about; there was 
 tuning in the orchestra; and the 
 foreign ambassadors and their 
 suites arrived in quick succession. 
 Prince Esterhazy, crossing a bar 
 of sunshine was the most prodigi- 
 ous rainbow of all. He was cover- 
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 Cause before she appeared. A 
 urst from the orchestra mnrkec) 
 her appearance at the doors, and 
 the anthem, 'I was gliid,' rung 
 
 And from thi» 'wise uncle to the 
 young cousin setting out upon his 
 travels, who had hoard of her ele- 
 votion with a beating heart, all the 
 friendly princely circle breathed 
 
 through the Abbey. Everybjdy exhortation to duty ond. conscien- 
 
 rose — - The 'Qod Save the C^ueen' 
 of the organ swelled gloriously 
 forth after the recognition. The 
 acclamation whon the crown was 
 put on her head was very anima- 
 ted; and in the midst of it, in an 
 instant of time, the peeresses were 
 all coroneted .... The homage was 
 as pretty a sight as nny — trains of 
 peers touching her crown and then 
 kissing her hand." 
 
 The glim"-,er of magnificence in 
 this p. jight be greatly en- 
 
 larged upc ,, but that will be bet- 
 ter done by the artist than by the 
 writer — though the one in.stance 
 before alluded to, "the siraultane- 
 1^ ous self-coroneting of the peeress- 
 * °°" as the Queen's crown was put 
 
 
 tious endeavor in the young 
 Queen's ear. "Now you are Queen 
 of the mightiest land in Europe- - 
 in your hand lies the happiness of 
 millions," said young Prince Al- 
 bert in his letter of congratulation. 
 He was go|ug to Italy, in the free- 
 dom of a life less burdened, less 
 full of splendid care than hers, yet 
 not without a thought that his very 
 wanderings wore some time to be 
 of service to her. "May Heaven 
 assist you," he adds, "ami strength- 
 en with its strength in that high 
 and difficult task." Under no light 
 aspect was the young Queen per- 
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 going on, however, and everything 
 Hashing in splendor, turning into 
 gold at the touch of her smallhand, 
 the immediate circle of advisers 
 and friends around the voung Sov 
 
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 Of the short interval which fol- 
 lowed of the young Queen's reign 
 alone there is little record. She 
 herself speaks of it with expres- 
 sions of regret not unusual in an 
 exceptionally pure and virtuous 
 
 ereign fed her with no flatteries or life, where a little youthful levity, 
 
 foolish exultation. Her mother, 
 % who had watched over her so close- 
 \ ly, now withdrew, as etiquette and 
 ^ necessity required, from at least 
 
 the constant companionship in 
 
 which they had previously lived. 
 
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 looking back over the fair land- 
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 almost like a crime. The brighter \ 
 that landscape is, the more pro- li 
 found looks the innocent shadow | 
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 anxious guardit^n himself never 
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 been au excuLO for many mistakes; 
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 to pardon. She was guilty of one 
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 ed the nation fully more than it 
 alarmed it. Lord Melbourne had 
 resigned — who was the Queen's 
 first Minister and devoted personal 
 friend, besides being the head of 
 the party to which all her training 
 had inclined her — and Sir Robert 
 Peel was prepared to take his 
 place; but the efforts of the Con- 
 servative Premier were frustrated 
 by the refusal of the Queen to 
 change her Mistress of the Robes 
 and Bedchamber Ladies — an un- 
 forseen proceeding, which had the 
 result of deferring the change for 
 a short time. 
 
 But more violent demonstrations 
 had taken place under tne previ- 
 ous Kings, none of whom had 
 professed that absolute impartial- 
 ity in respect to the two great par- 
 ties in the political world which 
 the Queen's example and steady 
 practice throughout her long sub- 
 sequent reigi', has made familiar 
 to us. But naturally Ihe error of 
 judgment^ if it weut as far^ made 
 by a girl of twenty, %va,s pounced 
 upon by critics to whom the pranks 
 or an elderly King appeared justi- 
 fiable. And, no dor bt, had a wilful 
 habit been established of this kind, 
 and an English Sovereign taken up 
 the irritable position of confound- 
 ing all the plans of politicians, and 
 baffling the wish of the country by 
 such means, the situation might 
 have become serious. As it was, a 
 certain grateful sense of natural- 
 ness comes in, when we find the 
 Queen';-, one public fault in her 
 long chreer to have been of this 
 character. It was in May, 1839, 
 nearly two years after her acces- 
 sion, that the incident occurred, 
 "It is well understood now," says 
 Mr. Theo. Martin, in his "Life of 
 the Prince Consort," "that there 
 was misum^erstanding on both 
 sides; but the immediate effect was 
 to exasperate the Tory party by 
 
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 the feeling that a tottering Minis- 
 try owed its continuance in office 
 to personal predilections of the 
 Sovereign." Nowada/s, however, 
 nobody can suppose that there was 
 any danger to the Constitution in 
 the act, and the episode remains 
 an amusing and characteristic one, 
 lighting up the dullness of politics 
 with a picturesque incident. Never 
 again did Her Majesty depart from 
 the Constitutional impartiality 
 which looks upon Whig and Tory, k* 
 Conservative and Liberal, with the \ 
 same calm confidence and friendli- 
 ness; and we confess, for our own 
 part, that this one little "fling" of 
 youthful impetuosity gives to our- 
 selves a more affectionate realiza- 
 tion of the character and difficul- 
 ties of the Queen. 
 
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 herself more severely, and has re- 
 corded her painful recollection of 
 this moment of early freedom, 
 when, perhaps her head was slight- 
 ly turned by the splendor and ab- 
 solute freedom of her great posi- 
 tion. "A worse school tor a young 
 girl, or one more detrimental to all 
 natural feelings and affections, can- 
 not well be ima gined," Her Majes- 
 ty says, with profound gravity and 
 feeling. Such being the case, as 
 she tells, who can judge best, it is 
 satisfactory that so little harm 
 came of it. "To the pure all things 
 are pure," even the delightful fol- 
 lies of youth. Miss Martineau, the 
 most unfavorable of critics, who 
 has something disagreeable to say 
 of most people she mentions, and 
 to whom the monarchy altogether 
 was " unreal, " says of the young 
 Queen that she laughed and talked 
 on all occasions when this censor 
 beheld her — a pleasant fault. An- 
 other shortcoming of her Majesty 
 during this interval of gaiety was 
 that all ideas of marriage were put 
 out of hei mind by the whirl of 
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 ferred London to the country — a 
 preference curiously unlike the 
 sentiments of her later life, though 
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 twenty — a period at which few 
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 so unlikd. yet so like, the peren- 
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 ledge on such matters from 
 poetry and romance, which place 
 them in front of all human affairs. 
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 ship of life, as is usual among 
 other races, and nllows a general 
 freedom of visiting and of social 
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 one side and opening up of the 
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 which lay between them and En- 
 gland, to pay a visit to the aunt 
 and cousin whom he had never 
 seen. With what excitement and 
 suspense the elder people must 
 have watched this first encounter. 
 The young people were of the 
 same age, agreeable and attractive 
 in looks — two blue-eyed human 
 creutures, looking their great life 
 frankly in the face, as hopeful, as 
 unclouded, as became their years. 
 What the Princess was will be 
 seen from the youthful portrait 
 with which by this time even those 
 who remember it of old must have 
 grown unfamiliar— losing the fair, 
 young, candid countenance in the 
 maturer face so familiar to us. 
 What Prince Albert was is de- 
 scribed by Baron Stockraar in a 
 letter written, on the eve of the 
 eventful meeting, to the anxious 
 uncle, King Leopold, whose long- 
 cherished plans were now to be 
 put to the test. 
 
 "Albert is a fine young fellow, 
 well-grown foi his age, with agree- 
 able and valuable qualities, and 
 who, if things go well, may in a 
 few years turn out a strong, hand- 
 some man, of a kindly, simple, yet 
 dignified demeanor. Externally, 
 therefore, he possesses all that 
 pleases the sex, and at all times. 
 
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 and in all countries, must, please." 
 This was the external aspect of 
 the youth; his mind, a more inscru- 
 table sul)ject, was largely discuss- 
 ed between the wise and interest- 
 ed counsellors who hoped to see 
 in him tlio model prince, tho typi- 
 cal man, at once hero uud sage, 
 who carry out all their hopes. But 
 ev«?n to these penetrating states- 
 men the mind of seventeen was 
 inscrutable, and could be regarded 
 only with hope, not certainty. 
 What will almost be more interest- 
 ing to the general reader will be 
 that the boy thus coming to our 
 shores, with so many plans in his 
 head, was merry and light-hearted, 
 as became his age, full of youth- 
 ful laughter as well as youthful 
 wisdom, and as capable of ke ping 
 his felloW'Students in a roar of 
 genial fun as of winning the ap- 
 probation of the elders who were 
 bent on fathoming tho deepest se- 
 crets of his being. T'here is so 
 much gravity in the story that the 
 mirth is doubly welcome when we 
 hear of it, and no doubt was quite 
 as much in the young man's favor 
 as his well-developed figure and 
 fine features. The Duke of Saxe- 
 Coburg and his sous dllUved at 
 Kensington Palace in the end of 
 May, and there is no record of the 
 meeting except in the brief letters 
 of the Prince, published to his 
 Memoir, which gave few details. 
 His aunt and cousin were "very 
 kind" and "amiable." This is all 
 the modest boy discloses, and 
 propably there was not much to 
 tell. The world had its suspicions 
 that something more was meant 
 than met the eye when the young 
 cousins were thus brought togeth- 
 er, but no gleam of consciousness 
 shows itself in the kind, simple 
 letters. They had known each 
 other all their lives, though they 
 had never met before, and ordin- 
 
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 the pleasant familiarity, yet 
 strangeness, of such intercourse. 
 Father and son stayed some weeks 
 in London, and were at levees, and 
 court dinners, and concerts, long 
 prolonged, during which the 
 young visitor had many "hard bat- 
 tles to fight against sleepiness," 
 so young was he, and so untried 
 in fashionable dissipations. On 
 one evening, at least, there was "a 
 brilliant ball at Kensington Pal- 
 ace," at which the young Ger- 
 mans, unused to such late hours, 
 remained till four o'clock in the 
 niorning. The curious reader 
 would like to know how often the 
 cousins danced together, and if 
 each threw a chance to the other, 
 as ha]}pen8 sometimes over all 
 the music and the mirth. There 
 were stories going, of which we 
 remember to have heard some 
 cited, of flowers bestowed, and 
 looks exchanged — the gossip of 
 the ball-room; but these are not 
 things likely to be specified in let- 
 ters to the mother at home. 
 
 When the Prince left England, 
 however, anxious King Leopold 
 in the background, who was still, 
 as always, watching over every- 
 thing, broke the silence and wrote 
 to his niece. The Princess replied 
 warmly, with a frankness which 
 must have made the heart of her 
 careful and anxious guardian re- 
 joice, entreating her uncle to take 
 into his special protection "one 
 now so dear to me." What a re- 
 lief this must have been to the 
 mind of the wise King, all who are 
 aware of the perversions of youth- 
 ful inclinations, and their readi- 
 ness to direct themselves in unau- 
 thorized directions, and refuse the 
 best way, will readily believe. 
 
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 to the world, nor even, it would 
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 ed, who still linked in thought and 
 fancy to the pretty cousin of whom 
 all his attendants had spoken to 
 him all his life, thought of her 
 still as he went forth upon his 
 travels, sending her such tokens of 
 remembtanee as an Alpine rose 
 gathered on the Righi, a book of 
 prints to show his route from time 
 to time; very natural, simple to- 
 kens of the delicate amity ripened 
 into warmer emotions, such as 
 pass every day between youth and 
 maiden on the verge of love. 
 
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 soon interrupted by an event which 
 looks all the more great and over- 
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 struggle of great principles or 
 great measures; no Reform Bill or 
 other large public commotion in , 
 the way, but still more absorbing, 3 
 though much less worthy, conflict *■ 
 of parties, embittered by the fact 
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 on the Opposition aide — an uncon- ^ 
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 scarcely ever taken place since. \ 
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 difficult to the young creature who \ 
 was his successor. The present » 
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 her childish eye, the broad black ^ 
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 we take from the recently publish- 
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 — a book so full of postl^umous 
 indiscretions that its praise may 
 be accepted fully as sincere: 
 
 "Tlie King died at twenty min- 
 utes past two yi^sterdiiy morning, 
 and the young Queen met the 
 Council at Kensington Palace at 
 eleven. Never was anything like 
 the first iinpieasion she produced, 
 or the chorus of praise and admir- 
 ation which raisnd about her man- 
 ner and behavior, and certainly 
 not without justice. It was very 
 extraordinary, and certainly somf- 
 thing far beyond what was looked 
 for. Her youth and inexperience, 
 and the ignorance of the world 
 concerning her, naturally excited 
 intense curiosity to see how she 
 would act on this trying occasion, 
 and there was a considerable as- 
 semblage at the Pahice, notwith- 
 standing the short notice that was 
 given. The first thing to be (k)ne 
 was to teach her her lesson, which 
 for this purpose Melbourne had 
 himself to learn. I gave him the 
 Counc^il papers, and explained all 
 that had to be done, and he went 
 and explained all this to her. He 
 a.sked, too, if she would enter the 
 room accompanied by the great 
 officers of State, but she said she 
 would come in alone. When the 
 Lords were assembled the Lord 
 President informed them of the 
 King's de;ith, and suggested, as 
 thev were so numerous, that a few 
 of them should repair to the pres- 
 ence of the Queen and inform her 
 of the event, and that their lord- 
 ships were assemblad in conse- 
 quence; and accordingly the two 
 Koyal Dukes, the two Archbish- 
 ops, the Chancellor, and Mel- 
 bourne went with him. The 
 Queen received them in the ad- 
 
 joining room alone. As soon as 
 they had returned the proclama- 
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 uiu^les, who advanced l(j meet her. 
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 seat, and then read her Spcch in 
 a clear, distinct, and audible voice, 
 and without any appearance of 
 fear or embarasment. She was 
 quite plainly drsssed, and in 
 mourning. After she had read her 
 Speech and taken and signed the 
 oath for the security of the Church 
 of Scotland, the Privy Councillors 
 were sworn, the two Royal Dnkos 
 first by themselves; and as these 
 two old men, her uncles, knelt be- 
 fore her, swearing allegiance, and 
 kis<»ing her hand, I saw her blush 
 up to the eyes, as if she felt the 
 contrast between their civil and 
 their natural relations; and this 
 was the only sign of emotion which 
 she evinced. Her manner to them 
 was very graceful and engaging. 
 She kissed them both, rose from 
 her chair, and moved toward the 
 Duke of Sussex, who was farthest 
 from her, and too infirm to reach 
 her. She seemed rather bewild- 
 ered at the multitude of men who 
 were sworn, and who came one af- 
 ter another to kiss her hand; but 
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 did she make the slightest diflfer- 
 ence in her manner, or show any 
 in her countenance, to any indi- 
 vidual of any rank, station, or 
 party ... She went through the 
 whole ceremony, occasionally 
 looking at Melbourne for instruc- 
 tions when she had any doubt 
 what to do, which hardly ever oc- 
 curred, and with perfect calmness 
 and self-possession, but at the 
 same time with a graceful modes- 
 ty and propriety particularly inter- 
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 businesK was done, she retired as 
 she had entered." 
 
 It is not wonderful that, after 
 this reinarkablo scone was over, 
 the statesmen, touched and charm- 
 ed, should stand toj^etlier in a 
 murmur of conversation, talkiufj;, 
 over this strange young appari- 
 tion in the rnidstof them— a crea- 
 ture so different from the oKl King 
 who had formerly claimed their 
 often reluctant homage. A now 
 sense of loyalty, mingled with 
 chivalry and paternal tenderness 
 and admiration, rose in their 
 minds. 
 
 "Peel told me . how amazed 
 he was at the manner and behav- 
 ior, at her apparent deep sense of 
 her situation, her modesty, and 
 at the same time her firmness. She 
 appeared, in fact to be awed but 
 not daunted; and afterward the 
 Duke of Wellington told me the 
 same thing, and added that if she 
 had been his own daughter he 
 could not have desired to see her 
 perform her part better. It was 
 settled that she was to hold a 
 Council at St. James' this day, and 
 be proclaimed there at ten o'clock 
 and she expressed a wish to see 
 Lord Albemarle, who went to her, 
 and told her he would come to 
 take her orders. She said, 'I have 
 no orders to give; you know all 
 this so much better thun I do, that 
 1 leave it all to you. I am to be 
 at St. James' at ten to-morrow, 
 and must beg you to find me a 
 conveyance proper for the occa- 
 sion.' Accordingly, he went and 
 fetched her in state with a great 
 escort ... 1 rode down the Park, 
 and saw her appear at the window 
 when she was proclaimed. Th* 
 Duchess of Kent was there, but 
 not prominent; the Queen was sur- 
 rounded bv her Ministers, and 
 courtisied repeatedly to the 
 people .... At twelve she held 
 
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 a Council at which she presided 
 with as much ease as if she had 
 been doing nothing else all her 
 life; and tliotigh Lord Lansdowno 
 and my colleague had contrived 
 between them to make some con- 
 fusion with the Council papers, 
 she was >iot put out by it. She 
 looked very well; and though so 
 small in stature, and without 
 much pretension to beauty, the 
 gracefulness of her manner and 
 the good expression of her coun- 
 tenance give her, on the whole, a 
 very agreeable appearance, and 
 with her youth inspire an excess- 
 ive interest in all who approach 
 her, and which I (san't help feel- 
 ing myself. 
 
 "Conyngham, when he came to 
 her with the intelligence of the 
 King's death, brought a request 
 from the Queen Dowager that she 
 might be permitted to remain at 
 Windsor till after the funeral; and 
 she has written hei a letter, couch- 
 ed in the kindest terms, begging 
 her to consult nothing but her own 
 health and convenience, and to 
 remain at Windsor just as long as 
 she pleases. In short, she ap- 
 pears to act with every kind of 
 good taste and good feeling, as 
 well as good sense; and, as far as 
 it has gone, nothing can be more 
 favorable that the impression she 
 has made." 
 
 Higher testimony than this could 
 scarcely be. We find another des- 
 cription from outside of the latter 
 ceremony — the Presentation at St. 
 James' — from a very different kind 
 of witness. It is given by Miss 
 Martineau in her lately published 
 "Autobiography," and gives a 
 different aspect of the scene. The 
 reader will be amused to note the 
 difference between the respectful 
 enthusiasm of the first narrator, 
 who saw and heard at first hand, 
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 y great, towards this slight girl of 
 ^ eighteen, looking out loyally, if 
 4 somewhat wistfully, upon the 
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 4 conjectured the tears, and felt 
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 sion, which makes the portrait 
 taken at this period 
 There is a picture in 
 at Windsor Castle, 
 great excellence in 
 but affecting and interesting from 
 the higher human charm which 
 gives these public pageants of suc- 
 cession a quite new and peculiar 
 attraction. It is called "The 
 Queen's Finit Council, "and shows 
 us the girl-Queen, so young and 
 slight and childlike in appearance, 
 seated with grave simplicity 
 among the veterans of the Coun- 
 cil. It would be difficult to imag- 
 ine anything more touching. 
 
 In the spring of the year 1861 
 the Queen lost her mother. It was 
 her first sorrow — the first break in 
 the family. But the Duchess of 
 Kent hud attained the natural limit 
 of human life, and it had been in 
 the power of her daughter to sur- 
 round her declining life with every 
 comfort and ca^e. The loss was 
 natural and inevitable. A' very 
 different affliction was soon to 
 come. Before the v'^ar ha;l closed, 
 the husband whi had filled the 
 Queen's life witli i'.appiness, whom 
 she had truly worshipped as her 
 guide, and wholly trusted in, her 
 own perfect friend, helper, guar- 
 dian, and lover, was suddenly 
 taken from her side. Afterward 
 it was said that his constitution 
 had never been strong; and 
 throughout his life his occupations 
 had been enormous and unceasing; 
 but till he died it had not occurred 
 to any one that such a man, in the 
 prime of life, with all the security 
 of virtuous life, and exemplary 
 habits, and prosperity jjand happi- 
 ness, still young, handsome, and 
 with every appearance of vigor, 
 would die. His illness was not 
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 near; nnd the intimation of that 
 (loath gave a personal Hhock to the 
 3| nation such as a few public Courts 
 of and kind have ever produced. 
 One general sob and cry of sym- 
 pathy rose everywhere for the 
 Queen. She it was, being the first 
 in the affections of her people, of 
 ^ whom England thought; and all 
 \ that sympathy could do was little 
 to sustain her in the inconceivable 
 calamity which seemed Ijjcely to 
 overwhelm her altogether. It was 
 on the 14th of December, 1861, 
 that Prince Albert died; and it is 
 only since his death that he re- 
 ^ ceived the appreciation which his 
 \ sinpularly perfect character de- 
 $ served. This appreciation he had 
 f, got from all who came into imrae- 
 % diate contact with him in his life- 
 
 under the personal influence, he 
 was not sufficiently known to be 
 beloved. Perhaps, if truth wore 
 told, he was too uniformly nt)ble, 
 too liigh above all soil and fault, to 
 win the fickle admiration which is 
 more caught by picturesque irreg- 
 ularity than by the higher perfec- 
 tions of a wholly worthy life. But 
 since his death, and chioHy since 
 the (Queen's own generous and ten- 
 der impulse prompted her to make 
 the country the confidant of her 
 own great love and happiness, the 
 Prince Consort has had full justice. 
 The record of their mutual life has 
 interwoven the happiest and purest 
 hours of existence with the nation- 
 al history. 
 
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 those which were inevitable. The 
 country has complained of her for 
 the first time; but the complaint 
 itself has been th-^ highest proof of 
 love and honor. The one reproach 
 that has been raided against her 
 Majesty is that in her sorrow she 
 has fallen out of that mutual inter- 
 course with her people in which 
 the country delighted. England 
 has grudged her seclusion, her 
 mourning, the true and profound 
 grief of her widowhood; although 
 at the same time, with very natural 
 and thoroughly English perversity, 
 the country has been proud of the 
 faithful sorrow which would not 
 be comforted. More and more, 
 however, as it was known what the 
 Prince was to the Queen, is the 
 overwhelming grief of her widow- 
 hood understood. It has been said 
 again and again, to her eternal 
 honor, that she has never failed in 
 her attention to business through 
 all these years of sorrow. But her 
 courage has failed her for the 
 gaieties of life, the ceremonies of 
 state, and that office of social leader 
 and head which no one else can fill, 
 but which it is so hard to under- 
 take with a sorrowful heart. Even 
 these duties, however, her Mfjesty 
 has by degrees, as she was able for 
 the exertion, to some extent re- 
 sumed. And by this time the 
 marriage of the greater number of 
 her children, and the springing up 
 of a second generation of children 
 about the Boyal House, has re- 
 stored the atmosphere of cheerful- 
 ness and hope. The Princess Alice, 
 the Queen's second daughter, who 
 had been her mother's chief sup- 
 port in the terrible moment of her 
 bereavement, was married shortly 
 after in the very depth of the 
 gloom, in the private chapel of 
 V/indsor Castle, the plaitast and 
 least attractive of ail Royal chapels. 
 The Prince of Wales followed in 
 less than a year after, and was mar- 
 
 ried to his beautiful and popular 
 wife with all the pomp that befitted 
 such an event. The two younger 
 Princesses, Helena and Louise, 
 have followed — the marriage of the 
 latter being characteristic of "her 
 Majesty's "love of love," and pre- 
 ference of that one sacred founda- 
 tion of such marriage over every 
 other; the Marchioness of Lome 
 being the first Royal Princess who, 
 fully authorized and approved by 
 the Throne, has united herself to 
 a subject — a subject, however, be 
 it said, with as genuine a title to 
 be called Prince — had such been 
 the *«»shion of theso inlands — as 
 Dj^^ny a secondary Cojitinental sov- 
 ereign. 
 
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 ed during these later years. The 
 American war which involved 
 great sufferings to our manufactur- 
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 and entirely free from any riot and 
 disorder; and the great Franco- 
 German war of sixteen years ago, 
 which roused sympathetic teeling 
 on either side to a very high pitch, 
 yet left England untouched. It 
 seems almost like the foolish adul- 
 ation of courtship to speak of the 
 almost mortal illnt^ss of the Prince 
 of Wales in the year 1871 as of 
 equal importance v\i\x these great 
 conflicts, which cost the lives of 
 thousands; but it is an undeniable 
 lact that no such exciting anxiety 
 has filled the public mind for years. 
 The bulletins of the Prince's pro- 
 gress wore looked for through ling- 
 land with a breathless sus.jenfse 
 such as is generally reserved for the 
 private anxieties of a family, and 
 the whole nation may be said, with 
 little hyperbole, to have watched 
 at the bedside of the Queen's son 
 with his mother and his wife. All 
 the other monarchs of the world, 
 we believe, might have died with- 
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 universal anguish of sympathy." 
 The Queen has become by this 
 time — she who began her Royal 
 profession in all the innocence of 
 girlhood, almost a child among her 
 long-headed Ministers — one of the 
 most experienced of statesmen, for 
 the word, we believe, has no femi- 
 nine, and it is the hope of all that 
 her history will present to posteri- 
 ty the venerable picture of an aged 
 
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 Brothers, must we part at last? 
 Shall not we thro' good andjiill '. 
 Cleave to one another still? 
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