Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-06-22
THE QUEENS JUBILEE.
PROGRAM OF THE CELEBRATION NOW
IN PROGRESS.
Longest Reign Of All English Monarchs--
Mother OF Nine Chlldren-she May
soon Abdicate.

the world as it does to.night-the eve
Of the jubilee. At all times the bus.
lest live of the human race, to night
London is crowded TO it's innermost
door by stupendous gathering of
strangers representing nearly everyN
race under the sun and nearly every
country found upon the map. The
common object of this crowd-par-
ticipating in the greatest historical
pageant yet witnessed in the history
Of the British Empire gives tone and
complexion to every minute of time,
to every thought and action.
Tomorrow Victoria Regina, ruler
of Great Britain and India, begins
the celebration of her diamond jubi-
lee. She has been on the throne six
ty years, having succeeded her uncle,
William w., on June 20, 1887, at A
o'clock in the morning.
Her uncle Leopold and England's
Ministers of State drove post haste to
the home of the Duchess of Kent to
inform the girl Victoria, then scarcely
eighteen; that she had become Queen
of England. The Queen was asleep,
and for awhile could not realize her
position.
To night the Queen will dc little
sleeping, for she will be kept awake
by the firing of sixty cannon and the
salute of sixty guns which will be
sent up along the entire coast OF the
British Isles, beginning at II midnight
night. In the sixty years have pass
ed since the succession the Queen has
accomplished more for England than
any other sovereign that ever ruled
that country, not exceeding the Vir-
gin Queen Elizabeth, whose strides
in art and whose talent for keeping
the peace made her the wonder of the,
wonder Of the Elizabethan era.
When one Of the Queens children
marries Parliament grants dowry Of
$l50,000, aud when grandchild mar
ries the sum Of $4,000.
In addition to these trifes, the
Queen gets S250,0 per anum from
the Duchy of Lancaster, and an in1c
mense grant from India. She also
receives large money gifts, as nothing
pleases her as we'll as money. At the
jubilee celebration ten years ago the
Queen was given f350,O00 by "the
women of England" ami on her
birthday every spring she gets big
lump from her counties.
In return for all this money the
Queen has given England, besides its
advantages, nine royal children, and
has sc cured the succe .sion for four
generations to come.
She was married February 10, 1910,
to Albert, Prince of the SAKE Coburg
Gotha, and later, in the same year, a
Princess Royal was born. During
the next eighteen years nine children
came, following each other in such
rapid succession that any other wo-
man would have begged to be excus-
cdr and no Queen serving her coun-
try less faithfully than Victoria
would have welcomed them. But
there Nas always room for baby at
Windsor, the Queen feeling that Eng
lands prosperity demanded all Of
her. When her eldest child, "Vicky,"
married Frederick of Germany the,
Queen consoled herself by playing
with Beatrice, then only few months,
old.
- If Victoria dies to morrow, as it is
feared she may in the excitement of
the jubilee, she will leave behind her
sixty five living descendants-chil-
dren, grandchildren and great grand
children-and heirs to the throne for
the best part of century to come.
Should little Prince Edward, who will
be three years old Tuesday, grow up.
and marry successfully, he will con.
tinue the line in the next century so
faithfully promulgated in this one.
The services to morrow begin with
a religious observance at Frogmore.,
Windsor, where there is a mausoleum
erected in the memory of the Prince
Consort aud the Queens mother. the
late Duchess of Kent. The Queen
and the royal family will be present
at all of the services.
On the Monday following, June q,
the court will move in semi state to
London, and that evening there VIII
be a banquet at Buckingham Palace
in honor of the royal guests. 1t will
be followed by a reception for the
members of the Diplomatic Corps
and the Special ENJOYS.
On. Tuesday, June p, the royal
procession, headed by the Queen will
move through the streets of London.
1t will be followed by Examinations
at night
On Wednesday, June %, there will
be garden party at Buckingham
Palace, to which thousands have been
invited, and for which invitations
have sold for fabulous sums, many
decayed members of titled families
having sold their tickets for a fort