The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-08-22
oUEEN VICTORIES BOOK.
THE MARRIED LIFE OF THE QUEEN AND
PRINCE ALBERT.

PRINCE ALBERT.
Queen Victoria's history of the late Prince
Albert which has been so long announced
has at last been published, and presents
many interesting phases of royal connuola
life. Passing over the somewhat prollx &C
counts of the early life of the Prince, We
present the following summary OF the SUP
sequent history, as given by the Pail Mail
GG-ette::
THE PRINCE LEAVES HOME.
It appears that the Princes departure from
Got!ia was marked by very painful scenes
The Dowager Duchess was profoundly I'LL
pressed with the sacrifice her GRANDSON was
making, and the dangers and dllilcultles VI
the position he was about to assume. 90
much was she affected that at last HIS
name was never mentioned without fresh
hnrst of tears The day of his departure
was sad one-his friends sorrowing to lose
him "and the Prince himself very much
upset.n Many shed tears as he babe them
farewell. and as the carriage drove away the
Dowager Duchess went to the window. land
threw her arms out, calling out, Albert
Albert 2 in tones that went to every ones
heart, when She was carried away almost IN
a fainting state, by her attendants.
THE WEDDING.
The Prince arrived at Buckingham Palace
on Saturday, the Sth of February, lo4O.-
Next day he gave the Queen, as his wedding
GIFT, Il beautiful sapphire and diamond
brooch, and she gave him the star and Dad9e
of the Garter and the garter Itself set IN
diamonds. On the 10th they were marned
the Queen wearing her sapphire brooch, as
she herself records. OF the marriage cere-
monies we shall say nothing here; they
were the brilliant beginning OF lie OF much
more than content. Of the Queens happi-
ness after her union with " the husband of
her choice" Il hundred testimonies are
given; we may judge of it by the following
extract from her journal, written when the
Duke of Coburg took leave of his son few
days after the marriage:
"Oh how 1 did feel for my dearest, preci-
Gus husband at this moment. Father,
brother, friends, country-all has he lett,
and all for me God grant I may be the
happy n-the most happy person, to
make this blessed being happy and contented,
What is in my power to make him happy
will do.n
DOMESTIC LIFE.
The domestic life of the Queen and the
Prince, and the part he took in public bust
ness, are described with great trankness:
For the first year or two the Prince was
not, except on rare occasions, and by special
invitation. present at the interviews of the
Queen with her Ministers. Though taking,
the Queen says, "great pains to inform him.
self about everything; ;" and though Lord
Melbourne expressed much anxiety that
the Queen should tell him and show him
everything connected with public affairs"
\ ''he did not at this time take much
part in the transaction of business"
Nor were there wanting those who would
gladly have kept him permanently estranged
from it; and not only so, but who would
have denied him, even in the domestic
circle, that authority which, in private fami
lies, properly belongs to the husband, and
without which, it may be added, there can
not be true comfort or happiness in domestic
life. The Prince himself early saw the ne
cessity of his asserting and claiming that
authority "In my home life," he writes to
Prince Lowenstein, in May, 1910, {" am
very happy and contented; but the difficulty
in filling my place with the proper dignity
is, that am only the husband not the mas
ter of the house."
Fortunately, however, for the country, and
still more fortunately for the happiness of
the royal couple themselves, things did not
long remain in this condition. Thanks to
the firmness, but at the same time gentleness,
with which the Prince insisted on filling his
proper position as head of the family
thanks also TO the clear judgment and right
feeling of the Queen, as well as to her
honest and straightforward ma
ture-but thanks, more than all, to the
mutual love and perfect confidence which |
f11an n prIn 70 onh 0fh
it was impossible TO keep up any separation |
or difference of interests or duties between
them. To those who would urge upon the |
Queen that, as Sovereign, she must be the |
head of the house and the family, as well as |
of the State, and that her husband was,
after all, but one of her subjects, her Majesty |
would reply, that she had solemnly engaged |
at the alter to obey" as we'll as to love |
and honor - and this sacred obligation she |
could consent neither to limit nor refine |
away.
From the first, too, the Queenfacting on
the advice ofLord Melbourne, communicated |
all foreign dispatches to the5sP Prince In
August, 1910, he writes to his father:
s. Victoria allows me to take much part in
foreign affairs and think have already |
done some good. I always commit my
views to paper, and then communicate them
to Lord Melbourne. Heseldom answers me,
but have often had the satisfaction of see
ing him act entirely in accordance with
what have said"
PRINCE ALBERT THE QUEENS ADVISER.
AS is well known, the Prince slowly but
surely established his position as the Queens
adviser, till she at last "relied in all ques-
lions of difficulty on his Judgment, and |
acted in all things by his advice" When |
he died, she declared that 1T would now
be in fact the beginning of ID new reign."-
This we can better understand after reading |
the following passage:
The Queen, up to the period of her mar
riage, had INDUCED strong feelings of
political part1sanship. Among the happy
of the marriage may be in
Guided the gradual extinction of any such
feeling. The Prince had already shown,
in the discussions and correspondence re-
speeding the formation of his household, his |
own determination to stand clear from all |
political parties. Lord Melbourne now, |
most honorably to himself, supported the
Prince in pressing the same course upon the
Queen. He told the Prince that he thought |
the time was come when her Majesty &c should |
have a general amnesty for the Tories; and |
on being spoken to by the Queen, to whom
the Prince reported what he had said, re-
peated that such was his opinion. On |
another occasion, the Queen records that |
Lord Melbourne, speaking of the Prince.
" said, looking at him with tears in his ewes