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In the Days of Queen Victoria




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  Important Historical Books for the Young_Makers of England Series_

  By EVA MARCH TAPPAN, Ph.D.

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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

  In the Days of Queen Victoria