The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1901-01-26
THE QUEENS YOUTH.
Her Courtship and Marriage-Was
Good Mother.

Her COurtShIp anu Wdi''aSS was =
Good Mother.
A month after reaching her major:
ity, fate rushed upon the frail head OF
Victoria, the crown and the business
Of the empire. William Nv. died at
2:3O in the morning of June 70, 1885,.
Referring to the most momentous
day of her life, a member of her later
household writes:
ION that memorable morning when
the archbishop of Canterbury (Dr.
Howley) and the lord chamberlain,
the marquis of Conyngham, toll-Worn
and dust-traveled with their night
ride from Windsor, beat at the doors
of Kensington palacc--as the pres
ent writer has often heard the late
marquis describe-at 5 o'clock, ana
announced to the awakened girl OF Is
that she was queen of England, she
kissed the extended hands OF the
kneeling messengers and fell on her
knees between them, saying: II ask
your prayers on my head"
This" he continues, would have
been an extraordinary sentiment in
any ordinary little lady, but it came
naturally from one who we hear from
her preceptor, Bishop Davys of Peter,
borough, had had the Bible read to
her every day; and the anecdote IS
typical of the queens entire life, for
those who know her well would be
only too ready to admit that she was
a deeply religious woman, who in all
temptations and trials, tribulatiOns
and triumphs put her faith in Gods
grace. and who marked all acts of her
private and public life by a prayer
full appeal and brought up her chill
dren in the love and fear of God
In the late summer of 1889, in the
second year of Victoria's reign she
and Prince Albert met for the second
time. 1t was at Windsor and from
the moment of his coming the queer
seemed struck and delighted with his
presence. She wrote to his uncle
Leopold while Albert was yet a
Windsor that she had found him
most amiable and unaffected-i'
short, very fascinating That sh'
narrowly observed him during hi
short stay at the royal home and tina
his presence and demeanOr arOuse'
in her the first heart romance of he
| October, 1889, after he had returne
: with his brother from hunting in tn
forest, Victoria summoned her cous
in, received him alone, and after tn
manner required between monarc
and subject. formally proposed mai
Y riage.
l. OF this courtship, SO brief and S
). momentous, little authentic has bee
written or told Albert was yout
of most gracious presence, 1.-the, b,
not strong, poet, a musician,
e painter. Il student and yet man {
y intense feelings and almost infini1
tenderness. The mutually of the
tastes, their equal love for Leopol
their common esteem for dOmest
k and simple virtues, their Transporter
honesty, and above all their equ
:, youth and ardor. seem to have SUI
- GENTLY and well accounted even
sc the historians for the sudden al
S. strong development of their affectiI
l. for each other.
If Having made her choice she W;
not slow to acquaint her mother al
uncle first. HE seems perfection
IS she wrote to the latter, land l thiI
ne | have the prospect of great hap
ness. | love him more than l C;
m say, and l shall do everything in Il
:, power to make this sacrifice (for SUI
in my opinion it isl as small as
- can. He seems to have great Ia
Il necessary thing in his positiC
MS These last days have passed like
an dream. but do feel happy.
nc. 1t seems that at this time she
-. garded Albert's acquisceence to
royal wishes as sacrifice" and
u deed his own mental attitude iowa
his betrothed seems to have been