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Her Majesty the Queen in her state robes.(_From painting by Alfred F. Chalon, R.A., 1838._)]
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IN THE DAYS
OF
QUEEN VICTORIA
By
EVA MARCH TAPPAN, Ph.D.
AUTHOR OF "IN THE DAYS OF ALFRED THE GREAT," "IN THE DAYS OFWILLIAM THE CONQUEROR," "IN THE DAYS OF QUEEN ELIZABETH," ETC.
_ILLUSTRATED FROM FAMOUS PAINTINGS AND ENGRAVINGS AND FROMPHOTOGRAPHS_
BOSTON:LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO.
Published, August, 1903
COPYRIGHT, 1903, BY LEE AND SHEPARD_All rights reserved_
IN THE DAYS OF QUEEN VICTORIA
PREFACE
To her own people Queen Victoria was England itself, the emblem of therealm and of the empire. To millions who were not her people the words"the Queen" do not bring even yet the thought of the well-beloved womanwho now shares the English throne, but rather of her who for nearlysixty-four years wore the crown of Great Britain and gave freely to hercountry of the gift that was in her.
Other women have been controlled by devotion to duty, other womenhave been moved to action by readiness of sympathy, but few haveunited so harmoniously a strong determination to do the right witha never-failing gentleness, a childlike sympathy with unyieldingstrength of purpose.
Happy is the realm that can count on the list of its sovereigns onewhose career was so strongly marked by unfaltering faithfulness, byhonesty of aim, and by statesmanlike wisdom of action.
EVA MARCH TAPPAN.
WORCESTER, MASS._February, 1903._
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I. BABY DRINA, 1
II. THE SCHOOLDAYS OF A PRINCESS, 21
III. EXAMINATION DAY, 43
IV. A QUEEN AT EIGHTEEN, 68
V. THE CORONATION, 89
VI. THE COMING OF THE PRINCE, 114
VII. HOUSEKEEPING IN A PALACE, 138
VIII. A HOME OF OUR OWN, 163
IX. NIS! NIS! NIS! HURRAH! 186
X. THE ROYAL YOUNG PEOPLE, 212
XI. THE QUEEN IN SORROW, 235
XII. THE LITTLE FOLK, 259
XIII. MOTHER AND EMPRESS, 278
XIV. THE JUBILEE SEASON, 299
XV. THE QUEEN AND THE CHILDREN, 319
XVI. THE CLOSING YEARS, 338
ILLUSTRATIONS
Her Majesty the Queen in her state robes. (_From paintingby Alfred E. Chalon, R.A., 1838_) _Frontispiece_
_Facing page_
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent and Princess Victoria(_From painting by Sir W. Beechey, R.A._) 16
The Princess Victoria at the age of eleven 46
The coronation of Queen Victoria. (_From painting by SirGeorge Hayter_) 110
Albert, Prince Consort, in the uniform of a field marshal 136
The Queen in 1845. (_From a painting by John Partridge_) 158
Queen Victoria; Prince Albert; Victoria, Princess Royal;Albert Edward, Prince of Wales; Prince Alfred; PrincessAlice; Princess Helena. (_From a painting by F. Winterhalter,1848_) 188
Westminster Abbey 216
Balmoral Castle 244
Houses of Parliament 274
Windsor Castle 302
Her Majesty, Queen Victoria. (_From a photograph byA .Bassano_) 338