Life Of Her Most Gracious Majesty The Queen Vol 2 Of 2 Classic Reprint

Excerpt from Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, Vol. 2 of 2 The next day the royal party visited Stamford town, from which the Mayor afterwards sent Prince Albert the gift of a pair of Wellington boots, as a sample of the trade of the place. The drive extended to the ruins of another manor-house which, Lady Bloomfield heard, was built by the Cecils for a temporary resort when their house of Burghley was swept. The Queen and the Prince planted an oak and a lime, not far from Queen Elizabeth's lime. The festivities ended with a great dinner and ball, at which the Queen did not dance. Most of the company passed before her chair of State on the dais, as they do at a drawing-room. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, Vol. 1 of 2 I have been asked to write a few words of preface to this work. If the life-long friendship of my mother with her Majesty, which gained for me the honour of often seeing the Queen, or a deep feeling of loyalty and affection for our sovereign, which is shared by all her subjects, be accepted as a qualification, I gratefully respond to the call, but I feel that no written words of mine can add value to the following pages. Looking over some papers lately, I found the following note on a sketch which I had accidentally met with in Windsor Castle - a coloured chalk drawing, a mere study of one of the Queen's hands, by Sir David Wilkie, probably made for his picture now in the corridor of the Castle, representing the first council of Victoria. Of this sketch I wrote as follows: - "I was looking in one of the private rooms at Windsor Castle at a chalk sketch, by Sir David Wilkie, of a fair, soft, long-fingered, dimpled hand, with a graceful wrist attached to a rounded arm. 'Only a woman's hand, ' might Swift, had he seen that sketch, have written below. Only a sketch of a woman's hand; but what memories that sketch recalls! How many years ago Wilkie drew it I know not: that great artist died in the month of June, 1841, so that more than forty years have passed, at least, since he made that drawing. The hand that limned this work has long ago suffered 'a sea change.' And the hand which he portrayed? That is still among the living - still occupied with dispensing aid and comfort to the suffering and the afflicted, for the original is that of a Queen, beloved as widely as her realms extend - the best of sovereigns, the kindest-hearted of women." To write the life of Queen Victoria is a task which many authors might well have felt incompetent to undertake. To succeed in writing it is an honour of which any author may well be proud. This honour I humbly think has been realised in the work of which these poor lines may form the preface. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen - Volume 2 by Sarah Tytler is a rare manuscript, the original residing in some of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, typed out and formatted to perfection, allowing new generations to enjoy the work. Publishers of the Valley's mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life.

"Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen" in 2 volumes is a biographical account of the British Queen Victoria written by the Scottish novelist Sarah Tytler. Victoria (1819-1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 1837 until her death. She adopted the additional title of Empress of India in 1876. Known as the Victorian era, her reign of 63 years and seven months was longer than that of any of her predecessors. It was a period of industrial, cultural, political, scientific, and military change within the United Kingdom, and was marked by a great expansion of the British Empire._x000D_ Volume 1:_x000D_ Sixty-three Years Since_x000D_ Childhood_x000D_ Youth_x000D_ The Accession_x000D_ The Proroguing of Parliament, the Visit to Guildhall, and the Coronation_x000D_ The Maiden Queen_x000D_ The Betrothal_x000D_ The Marriage_x000D_ A Royal Pair_x000D_ Royal Occupations – An Attempt on the Queen's Life_x000D_ The First Christening – The Season of 1841_x000D_ Birth of the Prince of Wales – The Afghan Disasters – Visit of the King of Prussia – The Queen's Plantagenet Ball_x000D_ Fresh Attempts against the Queen's Life – Mendelssohn – Death of the Duc D'orleans_x000D_ The Queen's First Visit to Scotland_x000D_ A Marriage, a Death, and a Birth in the Royal Family…_x000D_ Volume 2:_x000D_ Royal Progresses to Burghley, Stowe, and Strathfieldsaye_x000D_ The Queen's Powder Ball_x000D_ The Queen's First Visit to Germany_x000D_ Railway Speculation – Failure of the Potato Crop – Sir Robert Peel's Resolutions – Birth of Princess Helena – Visit of Ibrahim Pasha_x000D_ Autumn Yachting Excursions – The Spanish Marriages – Winter Visits_x000D_ Installation of Prince Albert as Chancellor of Cambridge_x000D_ The Queen's Visit to the Western Islands of Scotland and Stay at Ardverikie_x000D_ The French Fugitives – The People's Charter_x000D_ The Queen's First Stay at Balmoral_x000D_ Public and Domestic Interests – Fresh Attack upon the Queen_x000D_ The Queen's First Visit to Ireland_x000D_ Scotland Again – Glasgow and Dee-side_x000D_ The Opening of the New Coal Exchange – The Death of Queen Adelaide_x000D_ Preparation for the Exhibition – Birth of the Duke of Connaught…

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Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen Volume II, has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken precautions to assure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern manner for both present and future generations. This book has been completely retyped, revised, and reformatted. The text is readable and clear because these books are not created from scanned copies.