Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-01-23


|VC'lI|O.|RIA, QUEEN
England Is D|EA|D|.
The cables bring the sad Intelligence
that Queen Victoria, Of England. died a.
osborne House, Cowes, Isle OF Wight
on Tuesday, 22d, 1.sO, p. IA.
Albert Edward, Prince Of Wales, sue.
ceeds to the throne, with the title j
King Edward VII.
SKETCH OF THE QUEEN.
Victoria, Queen Of Great Britain and
ireland and Empress OF India, was born
at Kensington Palace, May "a, 1910. She
was the only ohild Of Edward, Duke OF
Kent, the fourth son of George III aud
Princess Victoria Mary Louisa, OF Sake
lCoburg- -Saalfeld. She became heir pre-
sumptiye to the throne of England on
the accession of her unole, William Nv,
in 1880, since neither George Nv, Fred
eric or William had surviving children to
succeed them. On the death of William
lIV, June 20, 1887, she became Queen Of
England, and her unole Ernest, Duke OF
Cumberland, succeeded to the throne of
Hanover, as by the Salio law she could
not inherit that crown. Tho crowns of
England and Hanover had been worn BY
the same person for 1923 years. or since
the accession of George I, in TIA; they
now became separated. Queen Victoria
was crowned at Westminster Abbey on
June 2S, 1888. She was but little over
the legal age of 18 years when she
became queen. She Is described as a
young lady Of pleasing, simple manners,
and possessed of character formed to
habits of truthfulness and striot adher-
once to principle. She ascended the
throne with solemn Sense of the re-
sponsibility attending so lofty posi-.
tion, and impressed with an earnest
devotion to the interests of her subjects.
Her education had been under tho
direction of the Duchess of Northumber-
land.
On February 10, 1910, che married her
cousin, Prince Albert, of Sake Coburg.
Gotha, one of tho German States. Par
lament voted him the title of Prince
Consort, bill of naturalization, January
81, 1910, gave him the rights and privi-
leges of an English citizen, and an
annuity of 100000 was granted him for
life. Selby's Events to Be Remem-
bored" says of him:
with delicaoy of tact which it is
difficult to describe, the Prince became
the judicious patron of arts and learning
and national commerce. Yet this was
not more courtly favor, for to his work
ing hand and far-seeing eye we owe the
great exhibition of 1851 and the inter-
national of 1862, the foundation of
schools of science and art throughout
the country, and the advancement of
Great Britain in the industrial arts, as
we'll as in the arts of design within a
few years with a success exceeding half
century of former growth"
On March 16, 1851, the Queens mother.
tho Duchess of Kent. died. On Decem-
Der ID, 1861, the Prince Consort died.
The Queens grief at her husbands
death was 80 intense that for over fifteen
years she did not appear in public or at
any court ceremonial, though she did
not neglect her duties as sovereign.
Her life of semi-seclusion was passed at
Windsor castle or at her summer resi-
dence, Balmoral castle in Scotland. The
Prince Consort was very much endearod
to the English people by his practical
public spirit and genuine zeal in all
enterprises for tho benefit of the people
in science, art and along moro modern
lines of thought and action. He was
made field marshal, knight of the gar.
ter, Chancellor of the University of
Cambridge and invested with other high
titles and functions. The Crystal Palace
of 1861, the forerunner of exposition of
art and industry, was largely due to his
advocacy and enlightened direction.
His model farm at Windsor .s an
object lesson in its way. His business
foresight was excellent. He is said to
have invested the Queens funds most
judiciously in London suburban prop
erty and otherwise, 80 that her private
fortune has long been the largest of all
owned by the crowned heads of tho
world. He exercised wise influence
over tho Queen, without obstrusive die
tation. He frequently saved the govern
ment from danger by his cool Judgment
and wise patriotism. Shortly before his
death, during the civil war in the United
Statos, he was generally believed to have
thrown his influence in favor of the
Union. The dolicacy of his position as
a German Prince and the husband of the
Queen, without political authority,
exposed him at times to being misunder-
stood. Yet tho title Of ellis Royal High
ness Prince Consort' was conferred
upon him by letters patent Juno 25, 1857,
in case he should survive the Queen he
might act as regent during the minority
of the Prince of Wales. He refused the
chief command Of the English army. He
was devoted to tho education of the
the royal family and warmly attached to
the Queen. Ho made the domestic life
of the court synonymous with virtue
and culture. 1t Is small wonder that it
has been said the Queen valued the
name of wife and mother moro than
Queen, and that she had mourned for
such a man with almost unexampled
pertinacity.