Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-01-31

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were strongly opposed to it, but Victo
ria would not brook opposition in a
matter in which her happiness was SO
vitality concerned, and made her de
termination clearly apparent. She
did not believe in long engagements
Victoria was welded to Albert in the
Chapel Royal, st. James palace.
Queen Victoria was the mother OF
nine children, of whom two have died
as well as three of her sons-in-law.
Princess Victoria Adelaide Maria Lou
lisa, the queens first child, was born
Nov. 81, 1910. This daughter married
in 1850 Crown Prince Frederick OF
Prussia, and is the mother of the pres
| ent emperor, William II.
| Albert Edward, Prince of Wales,
was born in November, 1S41, and now
becomes King Edward VII. of Eng
land and emperor Of India. He
married March 10, 1868, the Princess
Alexandria, eldest daughter of the
king of Denmark.
Seven other children were born to
the queen, as follows: Alice Maud
Mary, born April 25, 1S43; married
July /, 1862, to Louis W, grand duke
of Hesse, and who died Dec. IA, 1878;
Alfred Ernest Albert, duke of Edin-
burgh and duke of Saxe-Coburg-Go-
tina, born Aug. 6, 1914, and married on
Jan %, 1874, to the Grand Duchess
Marie of Russia; Helena Augusta Vic
toria, born May %, 1916, and married
July 5, 1866, to Prince Frederick
Christian of Schleswig- Holstein;
Louise Caroline Alberta, born March
IS, 1S48, and married March q, 1871,
| to John, marquis of Lorne; Arthur,
duke of Connaught, born May l, 1850,
and married March 1S, 1879, to the
Princess Louise Margaret, daughter
of the late Prince Frederick Charles
born April Z, 1853, and married April
| 27, 1882, to the Princess Helen,
daughter of the late Prince George OF
| Waldeck, and who died March Is,
1884, and Beatrice Mary Victoria Fe-
dora, who was born April IA, 1857,
and married July %, 1888, to Prince
Henry Maurice of Battenberg.
Death of Prince Consort.
Victoria's mother and husband died
in 1861-the former in March and the
latter in December. Both these events
were crushing blows. She remained
for many years in almost unbroken
seclusion at Windsor or Balmoral. Her
grief was sincere and lasting. On the
old fashioned, paddle wheel steamer
Victoria and Albert, called by courte-
sy 'the Queens yacht" the antique
little cabin was kept furnished in eX-
actly the manner effected by the
prince consOrt.
This retirement from public func-
lions brought the queens son, Albert
Edward, prince of Wales, into more
prominence. He and the princess did
the entertaining and received at Buck
ingham palace in the queens name for
ten years or more. Except on import
ant diplomatic occasions, the queen
was invisible to public functiOnaries
The tradition that ''the queen never
her reign. The hundreds of photo
graphs of her majesty, sold in all
parts of the world, invariably show
the one expression, the heaviness of
the face, accentuated by the pro-
nounced droop of the long upper lip.
The queens pet son was the unfor-
tunate duke of Albany, who was an
invalid from birth. She watched over
this boy with all the tenderness of
any mother. and when the end came
| in his young manhood the sovereign
suffered as only mother does.
Beginning in poverty, through the
thrift of her husband, and despite the
prodigality of her eldest son, the
queen by strict economy accumulated a
fortune of $50,000,000, which includes
castles, country and town houses, and
much real estate. She was the first
English sovereign free from debt
throughout her reign. 1t is said that
she saved money on her civil list,
which amounted to 100000.
Victoria owned 500 houses in vari-
|
property, in addition to splendid es-
tates in Scotland and on the isle of
Wight In addition fully 5000 houses
have been built under crown leases on
building leaseholds held by her maj
esty. She had also rents from mar
kets and tolls from ferries, besides
the proceeds of mines and other works
upon her property or the crown
property. She had large estates in
Yorkshire, Oxfordshire, and Berks, val
liable lands in the isle of Man and in
Attorney, Scotland, Ireland and Wales.
Of the New Forest there are 1000
acres of absolute and So acres of con-
tingent crown property. Her majesty
enjoyed incomes from the forest of
Dean, from several other forests, and
from rich properties in and about
London.
Married in 1910, widowed in 1861
Victoria survived her husband more
than 3S years. Her grandchildren in.
clude some of the monarchs of Eu.
rope, among them the emperor OF
Germany, the empress of Russia, and
the reigning grand duke and grand
duchess of Hesse. The widowed en-
press of Germany and the reigning
duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha are
her own children. The crown prince
and crown princess of Greece, the
crown nrince and crown princess OF