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"- iiii'éiiii QUEEN’SLlPl Sketchy Story of the Life of Oui Late The year 181'1I was a memorable one In the history of England. Seldom had the prosperity of a country which had known no serious hitch or obstacle for a century been more seriously menâ€" aoed; never were the destinies ot‘ a constitutional monarchy that had ItO"(l Lhe storms of £00 years enveloped in n we fobidding gloom. The death of the Princess Charlotte opened up the prospect of succession to tho thrcrno to the youngest son of George IlI., and had lnSpll‘cd him with a desire to marry. As yet the only sons who had taken wives were the Duke. of York, who had: children, and the Duke of Cumberland. whose first living child was not born till 1819. The third brother was Edward. Duke of Kent, then 51 years of age. He was not on terms of ordinary friendship with any of his brothers. Suddenly he dotermined to marry. Victoria, daughter of Duke Franz of Ssxe-churg, at that time 32 years of age. had taken the Duke‘s fancy. On July 11, 1818, this lady became the Duchess of Kent, the future mother of the future Queen of England. HE WAS POOR. When the Duke was informed by his consort that he had the prospect of an heir, it was his wish‘ that the child should be born on English soil. The journey was attended with difficulty, for His Grace was much pressed for ready cash. In the spring of: 1819, however, the journey was made. The Duke and Duchess were installed at Remington Palace, then, as now, a place of residence for the members and proteges of the royal family, and on May 24, 1818, "a pretty little Princess, plump as a. partridge," was born. The Duke was delighted with the child. He mould dandle and caress her, and then hand her to the arms of admirâ€" ing spectators, with the caution, "Take care of her, for' she will be Queen of England." His Grace did not live to enjoy his parental happiness WI It. had been prophesied that two members of the family would die in the course of 1820. The) Duke believed the prophecy implicitly, but he applied it: to his brothers. [in the winter of 1819 he had gone to the sheltered waâ€" tering place of Sidmouth, in Devon- shire, “to cheat," as he said, “the win- ber." One day he happened, when taking a walk, to get wet and to catch cold. Acute inflammation of the lungs superveneal and carried him off. "The poor widow Lfound herself, Wing to the Duke's considerable debts, in I very uncomfortable posi- tion at the time of his death. Her Mother, Leopold, enabled her to re- turn to Remington, where she hence- forth devoted herself to the education of her child, Queen Victoria," PROPHECY FULFILLED. flix days after the death of the Duke of Kent the prophecy above mentioned was completely fulfilled by the death of his father, George III. 011 Monday, the 313(2, the new sovereign, the Prince Regent, was proclaimed George IV. The health of the new King was precari- “£111! ago was advanced; he had no legal heir. The Duke of York, the hair apparent, was married, had no family, and his Duchess was in a de- dlinng state. this next in order. was of ripe age. He The Duke of Clarence“ Ruler. had been refused by the King. Slll‘ appropriated the rooms. notwithstandâ€" ing the denial. The King informed lltll‘ publicly that he neither understood nor would endure conduct so disâ€" respectful to him. This, though said loudly and publicly, was only the mut- Lerings of a storm which broke next day. It was the royal birthday, and the King had invited a hundred people to dinner. The Duchess 01. Kent sat ‘on one side of His'fMajmty, one of his ‘sisters on the other and the Princess i Victoria opposite. ', DENOUNCED HER. MOTHER. When replying to a speech in‘ which his health had been proposed, the King burst forth in a bitter tirade against the Duchess. "I trust in God," he exclaimed, "that I may have the satisfaction of leaving the royal authority on my death to the personal. exercise of that young lady (pointing to this Princesslâ€"the heiress presumptive of the crownâ€"and not in the hands of a person now near me lwhno is surrounded by evil advisers, and ii ho is herself incompetent to act with propriety in the station in which she would be placed. I have no hesitation in saying that I have been insultedâ€" grossly and continually insulted â€" 'by that person, but 1 am determined to endure no longer a course of behavior so disrespectful to me." The King particularly complained of v‘the manner in which the Princess had been prevented from attending at court by her mother. "For the future," he said, "I shall insist and command that the Princess d-o upon all occasions appear at my court, as it isi her duty to do." Having begun with an anathema the King ended with a benediction, speak- ing of the Princess and her future reign in a tone of paternal interest and affection. The effect. however, which the royal utterances produced was alarming. The Queen looked in deep distress, the Princess burst into tears, the Duchess of Kent said not a. word, but soon after Leaving- the room, announced her immediate de- parture, and ordered her carriage. There was but one event which His Majesty wished to live to witness in his " Godâ€"forsaken reahn," He devout- liy prayed that he might live till the Princess Victoria was of ago. His pray- er was just granted. but only just. l‘t was not until she was 12 years old that the Princess Victoria was permitted to- kJJIolw the higth destiny reserved for her, and even then the knowledge name in: an almost accid- entsil manner. assemnn A LORD. Meanwhile the future husband of the Princess and her cousin was grow- ing up in Germany. Prince Albert, the sch of the Dplse of Coburig, was barn at Romans). in the August of the sum year an Primcess Victoria, and it is s curious coincidence, con- sidering the future connection of the children, that Mme. Siebold. the acâ€" oouchese who attended the Duchess of Oobuirg, at the birth of the young Pirinoe, had only three months before attended the Duchess of Kent at the ,blll‘th of this Princess. “How pretty ltho little Mayflower," writes the fwrmdmother both of Albert and Vic- toria, this Dowager Dwehess of Coâ€" h‘d h‘d two daughters born to him. burg, to the Duchess of Kent, "will Each of them had died in infancy. but; be Mb“! I nee it in a year‘s time' Sie- mmr bum. “Hugh not probable“ bold can not sufficiently describe what m “in not an impossible conun_‘n, dear little love it is." The Mayflow- ‘onoy. The next in succession was?M abo'e sp°ken 0f was' of course! the KING EDWARD VII. The New Ruler of Great Britain and all Her Colonies. tradict the things which' Lady Jer- oath for the security of the, Church (say said of her, and to other Whig allies." These were days in which party spirit ran high. and penetrated the whole fabric of society in Engâ€" land. Within two or three years of this time Princess Victoria. had taken heir place in that society as the heiress to this English throne. lEou' national purposes the Princess teenth anniversary of her birth. On (mine 2, nine days after this event had taken place, the King was desperately ill and died Otn June 20. THE CORONATION. This King died at 220 an the morn- ing of June 20, and the young Queen met her Council at Kensin‘g'ton Pal- aioe at 11 am the same day. After having received the two royal Dukes, this two Archbishops, the Chancellor and the Prime Ministerâ€"Lord Mel- bou-rnieâ€"othe proclamation was read to this Council. the usual order passed, thle doors were thrown open, and the young Queen entered. Of this proceedings the Clerk of the Council wrote: " After she had read hlsr speech and taken and ,siigned the of Scotland the Privy Councillors were sworn, the two royaJ Dukes first by themselves, and as these two old men, heir uncles, knelt before her, swearing- allegiance and kissing her hand, I saw her blush up ‘to the eyes, as if she felt the contrast between their civil and natural relations, and this web the only sign of emotibn completed her majority on the eigh-w.h‘iich she evinced. Her manner to them was very graceful and engag- ing. She kissed them both and rose from her chair and moved toward the Duke of Sussex, who was furthest from her and too infirm to reach her. She seemed rather bewildered at the multitude of men who were sworn and who came, one afber another, to kiss her hand, but she did not speak to anybody, nor did she make the slight- est difference in her manner, or show any in her countenance to any individ- uail of any rank, station, or party. I particularly watched her when Lord Melbourne and the Ministers and the Duke of Wellington and Peel ap« preacher. her She went through the wihoe ceremony occasionally looking at Melbourne for instruction when she had any doubt what to do, which the infant Princess st Kensmgton Palnoe. Every year as it L)qu by made it more apparent that if only the Life of the royal babe were spared upon her the monarchy ultimately must de- volve. As I matter of fact the pro- , Princess Victoria. From a very early ‘poriod the Dowager Duchess permit- ted hc-rself to entertain the hope that lher two grandchildren would there- after become man and wife. On February 25, 1831, when not phetic bout of the Duke ‘of Kent was quit" 12 3‘5"“ 0‘ 38": 9116 attend“ fulfilled (earlier than might have been anticipated. The Recent reigned for just 10 years after his ascent to the throne as George IV., the Duke of Oluenoe just seven years as William IV. On August 30, 1335, King- William, who had acceded to the throne on the death of his brother, in 1830, gave a dinner party at Windsor on his birth- day. There was one. person whom the King detected more even than his Ministers â€" the mother of the Prin- cell, the Duchess of Kent, who had not been spring in her criticism on the reception she had met from the royal family in England. The Duchess had applied for I. suit of apartments for heir first drawing room. “Lady Jer- sey," writes the amusing MixGreville, "made 1 scene with Laird Durham, She ‘got up in a. corner of the room and said: ‘Lord Durham, Iliear that you have said things about me which sure not true, and I desire that you will call upon me to-morrow with a witness to hear my positive denial. and I hope that you will not repeat such things about me.’ She was in a. fury, and he in a still greater. IIe muttered that he should never set foot in her house again which she did not hear, and, after delivering herself of her ssepch she flounced back again to her seat, mightily proud of her exploit. It nmae cut of her saying that he should make Lady Durham de- bu‘ own use in Kensington Palace, 1nd mend an audience of the Queen to con- ) -. . . ALEXANDRIA QUEEN CONSORT OF ENGLAND. hardly ever occurred. and with pen- fect calmness and selfâ€"possession,buit at the same time with a graceful mod- esty and propriety particularly inten- csting and ingmtiating." HER ENGAGEMENT. On October ll, teamâ€"that is, fouir days after her lover had reached Windsorâ€"the Queen informed Lord Melbourne that she had made up her mind as to her marriage. 0n the 15th she thus wrote to Ila-run Stockmar: “Ido feel so guilty 1' know not how to begin: my better, but Ithinh the mews it will contain Will be sub- ficien-L to insure your forgiveness. Alâ€" bert has completely won my heart, and all was settled between us this morning. I fool certain he will make me very happy. 1 Wish [could say I felt as certain); of making him happy. Leupold must tell you all about the details. which I have not time to do." The official and public nnnounov menit of the betrothal was not made either in Germany or England till the close of the yinsr.‘ The Prince arrived in England for his marriage on February 6, 18-10. The marriage (4on place on February 10 in; the chapel. of St. James's Palace. “The morning," writes Theodore Marnin in his “Life of the Prince Con- sort," “had been Wet, foggy and dis- mal, but the day was not to want the happy omen of that sunshine which came afterward to be prover- binlly lcnown as ‘Queen's weather.‘ Soon after this return. of the bridal party from the chapel. the clouds pas- sed off, the sun shone out with un- usual brilliancy and the thousands who lined the roads from Bucking- ham Palace [.0 Windsor Castle to see the sovereiigini and her huslrind at they passed were more fortunate than these who had crowded the even- ues of St. James‘s Palace in the morn»- ing. headless oif rainl and cold. to wit- ness the bridal procession on its way to and from the chapel.“ Notwithstanding the hearty effort! of the Queen to identify herself with her subjects anal to promote tho'r wel- fare, three attempts have been made upon heir life. An insane posit boy.‘ Edward Oxford, fired a pistol at Her Majesty as she was driving“ on Co-n- stitutioinal Hill. The attack was rev peated by one Franc-is with asimilar Wampum, on nearly the same spot. The pistol ball passed under the carriage. About two momrths after, this a hunch-j back named Benn similarly essayed‘ the assassln's l‘Oll}, but was prevent»! aid from accomplishing this object by a boy, Dassott. who happened to be near. l THE ROYAL LINE. ' The Queen was descended t‘rotmi, Wl'nlliam the Conqueror, who claimed connection with the previous regime, and included Alfred the Great among his ancestors. Here is the family line, traced backward from her Majesty to William; Victoria. , Daughter ufEdward, Duke of Kent. Third son. of George III., Son of Frederick Lewis Prince of Wales, Son of George IL, Son of George 1., Son of Princess Sophia, who married the Elector of Hanover, Daughibor of James 1., Son. of Mary Queen of Scots. Dwug‘hltel‘ of James V., of Scotland, Son of Princess Margaret, Daughbur of Henry VIL, Sun of Margaret, wife of Edmond Tudor, Earl of Richmond, Daughter of John ds Beaufort, Marquis of Somerset and Dorset. Son of John of Gaunt . Duke of Lancaster and King of Cestile and Leon. Sour of Edward 111., , Scm of Edward IL, ‘ . , Son: of Edward I., ‘ ‘ Son. of Henry 111., Son of John of Magus Chsr'ta fame. Sun of Henry IL, Son of Matilda, wife of Geoffery Plantagenet, Daughter of Henry 1.. Son (If William the Conqueror. The Queen through the Georges was a Guelphu This family was hounded in. 489 by Anulphus Hunulp< bus of' Guelph. the first of the north on). Kings of Italy. He subsequently obtained possession of Bavaria. and the Guelphs ruled there for mercy cen- turies, mild afterwards held sway in Saxony. One 01! the Guelphs. William, founder of this House of Lunenberg, had semen sons and eight daughters. The sons signaled among themselves not to divide the dukiuiloim. One. to be selected by lot, was to marry, and he and his children utter him were no rule. The unusual arrangement was observed to the letter, anld George, the sixth brother, worn the matrimonial prize. His youngest son, Ernest. Augustus, succeeded him, marrying Lin Electra“ Sophia, daugh‘ tor of the King of Bohemia, whose wills was the daughter of our Jamen I. The Electrons Sophia, granddaught- ber of Jame»: I., would have succoeded to the British Crown- on the death of Queen Anne. But she died seven weeks before that monarch. and her .‘Hlln, George L, ascended the throne. By way of James I. and his daughter the Queen was connected with the Guvilphs. She was also united in the same way to the Royal line of Scot- land. Jaran I., of England, and the sixth of Scotland, was the son of Mary, Quesnof Scots. whose lineage is traceable back to Elizabeth. DU‘RI‘ can. and Malcolm. of tragic fame. The Scotch line. the Norman. line, and the Harlow-«flan or Guelph line. all unit: in the Queen and Royal family. Sa does the old British monarchy. It il claimed that one branch of the fam- ily tree reaches to Alfred the Great and Egbent. The various races iipi'i aid. in the Qu'wn made her dis‘inctla representative of the English of M day.