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Title: England in the nineteenth century;
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Latimer, Elizabeth Wormeley, 1822-1904
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Publisher: Chicago, A.C. McClurg and Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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many bishops and high ecclesiastical digni-taries assisted in the chancel. Judges in their wigs androbes were there ; groups of Indians, in gorgeous costumesand jewels, came to do honor to the Empress of India;sheriffs from the fifty-two counties of England and Wales,and mayors from the principal cities. The next day, Wednesday, June 22, a great feast wasgiven to all the charity-school children of London inHyde Park, which the Queen and all the royal person-ages attended; and in the evening of that day allLondon was illuminated. I think, says a writer inthe Monthly Packet, that for once the English werenot taking their pleasure sadly, but were delighted, inter-ested, and amused with wondrous little. Dense as werethe crowds, good humor and a certain order prevailedeverywhere. The Queen has had nine children, of whom, in 1894,seven are still living, — Victoria Adelaide Mary Louisa,Princess Royal, now the widowed Empress Frederick,born in 1840 ; Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, born in
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PRINCESS ROYAL. (AJtcrioanis E»iprcss of Germany.) Q UEEN VIC TORI AS JUBIL EE. 417 1841 ; Alice Maud Mary, Grand-Duchess of Hesse-Darm-stadt, born in 1843; Alfred Ernest Albert, Duke of Edin-burgh and Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, born in 1844;Helena Augusta, Princess Christian, born in 1846; LouiseCaroline Alberta, Marchioness of Lome, born in 1848;Arthur William Patrick Albert, Duke of Connaught, bornin 1850; Leopold George Duncan Albert, Duke of Albany,born in 1853; Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodora, marriedPrince Henry of Battenberg, born in 1857, Very briefly I propose to tell the history of these Princesand Princesses. We begin with Victoria, the Princess-Royal,born shortly after her parents were twenty-one, and prob-ably the most highly intellectual member of her family. She was born November 21, 1840. A plump, healthy,beautiful princess, says the Court Chronicle, whobegan her life by protesting vehemently against beinginspected by the Lords of the Council and other dignita-ries, w

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