The Dickinson press., 1901-01-26

ing by a messenger from Windsor. She
received 1t in loose hair and a shawl
thrown over her nightdress and only
slippers upon her feet.
Kept poor. she had preserved her mind.
morals and habits to a date when pro-
fusion could not spoil her. She had been
brought up wholly in the German style.
and when the ecclesiastics, cabinet, ETC.,
came to swear allegiance to her the same
day she hardly knew their f;ces. Chiefly
had she been taught system. economy
and prudence. the very things our Amer
lean parvenues think to be unnecessary
in aqueen. Her, two remaining uncles
knelt before her. They had hated her.
June 81, the day afterward. she was
proclaimed queen from st. James palace,
where she appeared dressed in black, in
sleek bands of brown hair. Lord Mel
bourne, the prime minister. proclaimed
her to the crowd their sovereign. That
noon she presided alta privy council, past
IS years old, at the age for love and do
mesticity. Albert wrote to her from the
University Of Bonn:
my dearest cousin, you are queen of
the mightiest land in Europe. May l
pray you to think likewise sometimes of
your cousins in Bonn7'
After King Williams funeral Victoria
opened parliament in the house of lords
amid splendor unequaled Of peers and
peeresses. She wore q white satin robe,
q tiara Of diamonds on her head, a neck
lace and q stomacher of brilliants and
tho x;hhon ~ %bo no~xo~ oo~o,, l,,..l..,
der. A mantle of crimson velvet was
placed upon her shoulders. No queen
had been known Of her independent con-
ditions since Queen Anne. Her fine elo-
cution was a revelation to the British
auditors. Charles Sumner was there and
said, "She performed beautifully"
Her predecessor, William, hated the
Jews. She made n of them, Sir Moses
Montefore, a knight the first time she
visited the city-the first Jew sheriff. A
Jew in time made her compress of In
dia." Disraeli entered the house of COM
mons at 80, the year the queen became
sovereign. He was then an advanced
Liberal.
A new throne in Buckingham palace
was built for the young woman queen,
who was said to resemble the youthful
George III. Cousin Victoria is said to
have shown astonishing self possession
wrote Albert to his father: The news.
papers, with a brutality peculiarly Eng
lsh, were attacking the poor mother as
. foreigner"
The astute King Leopold sent Albert
of to the south Of Europe and held an
uncle's council with his niece at Wind
sor. Albert sent roses from the Alps, a
bit of Voltaire's writing, ETC.. things the
widowed queen still treasures, and there
vas a tacit understanding that she was
to take Albert when she wanted to, but
English factions were numerous and
savage, and Leopold knew them too well.
The cynics called her I'LL but q baby
Hard times afflicted England. The
voice Of O'Connell rolled through parlia-
ment saying, IF necessary. / can get
100000 brave Irishmen to defend the
life, the honor and the person Of this
beloved young lady who fills the throne"
She was small and delicate. of hair
nearly faxen and a rose bloom. She
fastened to pay her fathers debts and
gave his creditors presents of plate.
Thus her mother knew for the first
time since her second marriage the bless
ings Of independence and honor.
Albert's stepmother-his father con-
soled himself again-did not go withher
husband to the coronation June 90, 1888,
when Victoria had a new rown contain
ing all the old royal jewels. Her mother
preceded her, and the queen was drawn
to the abbey by eight cream colored
horses. She sat in Edward the Confess
or's chair upon the Scottish ''Stone Of
Scone," where may have been crowned
her ancestor, Bruce. She also was de-
scended from William the Norman. Her
descent backward is through her mother
to the Elector Of Saxony, who protected
Martin Luther; through her father to
the Countess Palatinate at Heidelberg,
William the Silent, the sister Of. Henry
VII, the queen Of Scotia, Owen Tudor
and S~hakespeare's Princess Katharine Of
France.
Victoria's train was held by eight
young peeresses, and she wore q crimson
velvet robe trimmed with ermine and
gold lace. She was anointed.
After five days Of wooing at Windsor
the queen told Lord Melbourne she should
marry Albert. She had as queen to do
the proposing, and she wrote to Leopold:
"He seems perfection, and ! think Ihave
the prospect Of great happiness before
me. Ilove him more than l can say"
They rode horseback much together.
About a month after this the queen an
nounced her engagement to her privy
council. Her whole courtship had been
only five weeks long. Her consort WA
to be allowed 100000 q year. They were
married the third day after he returned
to England, Feb. 10, 1910, at st. James
palace. They spent the honeymoon at
Windsor castle. They were first cousins.
Victoria the year before had made a
rash political mistake in refusing to
change two Wing noble ladies, as was
the custom at q change Of ministry. The
rabble called her "the queen who would
not let her bellies be Peeled" in ~allusion
to Sir Robert Peel, who succeeded Lord
Melbourne.
Prince Albert took charge Of his wife,a
political temperament from the outset.
In April, after the marriage, her mother
was moved to a private house. In June
the queens life wa attempted in Hyde
park by a waiter named Oxford, who
was ever afterward confined in an asy.
1um. Two shots were fred, and her life
was attempted several other times. By
July Albert was made contingent regent
NJ fha realm. Her nncle. SuaaeY. voted