Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 2

About this eBook

Author

Tytler, Sarah, 1827-1914

Credits

This eBook was produced by Tricia Gilbert, Juliet Sutherland, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team

Language

English

LoC Class

DA: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Great Britain, Ireland, Central Europe

Subject

Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901

Category

Text

eBook-No.

7086

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7086

Release Date

December 1, 2004

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.IN TWO VOLUMES — CONTENTS. — CHAP. — LIST OF STEEL PLATES. — QUEEN VICTORIA.
2. 2.CHAPTER I. — ROYAL PROGRESSES TO BURGHLEY, STOWE, AND STRATHFIELDSAYE.
3. 3.CHAPTER II. — THE QUEEN'S POWDER BALL.
4. 4.CHAPTER III. — THE QUEEN'S FIRST VISIT TO GERMANY.
5. 5.CHAPTER IV. — RAILWAY SPECULATION—FAILURE OF THE POTATO CROP—SIR ROBERT PEEL'S RESOLUTIONS—BIRTH OF PRINCESS HELENA—VISIT OF IBRAHIM PASHA.
6. 6.CHAPTER V. — AUTUMN YACHTING EXCURSIONS—THE SPANISH MARRIAGES—WINTER VISITS.
7. 7.CHAPTER VI. — INSTALLATION OF PRINCE ALBERT AS CHANCELLOR OF CAMBRIDGE.
8. 8.CHAPTER VII. — THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO THE WESTERN ISLANDS OP SCOTLAND AND STAY AT ARDVERIKIE.
9. 9.CHAPTER VIII. — THE FRENCH FUGITIVES—THE PEOPLE'S CHARTER.
10. 10.CHAPTER IX. — THE QUEEN'S FIRST STAY AT BALMORAL.
11. 11.CHAPTER X. — PUBLIC AND DOMESTIC INTERESTS—FRESH ATTACK UPON THE QUEEN.
12. 12.CHAPTER XI. — THE QUEEN'S FIRST VISIT TO IRELAND.
13. 13.CHAPTER XII. — SCOTLAND AGAIN—GLASGOW AND DEE-SIDE.
14. 14.CHAPTER XIII. — OPENING OF THE NEW COAL EXCHANGE—THE DEATH OF QUEEN ADELAIDE.
15. 15.CHAPTER XIV. — PREPARATION FOR THE EXHIBITION—BIRTH OF THE DUKE OF CONNAUGHT—THE BLOW DEALT BY FATE—FOREIGN TROUBLES—ENGLISH ART.
16. 16.CHAPTER XV. — THE DEATHS OF SIR ROBERT PEEL, THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE, AND LOUIS PHILIPPE.
17. 17.CHAPTER XVI. — THE QUEEN'S FIRST STAY AT HOLYROOD—LIFE IN THE HIGHLANDS—THE DEATH OF THE QUEEN OF THE BELGIANS.
18. 18.CHAPTER XVII. — THE PAPAL BULL—THE GREAT EXHIBITION.
19. 19.CHAPTER XVIII. — THE QUEEN'S ACCOUNT OF THE OPENING OF THE EXHIBITION.
20. 20.CHAPTER XIX. — THE QUEEN'S "RESTORATION BALL" AND THE "GUILDHALL BALL."
21. 21.CHAPTER XX. — ROYAL VISITS TO LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER—CLOSE OF THE EXHIBITION.
22. 22.CHAPTER XXI. — DISASTERS—YACHTING TRIPS—THE DEATH OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.
23. 23.CHAPTER XXII. — THE IRON DUKE'S FUNERAL.
24. 24.CHAPTER XXIII. — THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON III. AND THE EMPRESS EUGÉNIE—FIRE AT WINDSOR— THE BIRTH OF PRINCE LEOPOLD.
25. 25.CHAPTER XXIV. — THE EASTERN QUESTION—APPROACHING WAR—GROSS INJUSTICE TO PRINCE ALBERT—DEATH OF MARIA DA GLORIA.
26. 26.CHAPTER XXV. — THE BATTLE OF INKERMANN—FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE—THE DEATH OF THE EMPEROR NICHOLAS. — CHAPTER XXVI. — INSPECTION OF THE HOSPITAL AT CHATHAM—VISIT OF THE EMPEROR AND EMPRESS OF THE FRENCH—DISTRIBUTION OF WAR MEDALS.
27. 27.CHAPTER XXVII. — DEATH OP LORD RAGLAN—VISIT OF THE QUEEN AND PRINCE ALBERT TO THE EMPEROR AND EMPRESS OF THE FRENCH—FALL OF SEBASTOPOL.
28. 28.CHAPTER XXVIII. — BETROTHAL OF THE PRINCESS ROYAL—QUEEN'S SPEECH TO THE SOLDIERS RETURNED FROM THE CRIMEA—BALMORAL.
29. 29.CHAPTER XXIX.
30. 30.CHAPTER XXX. — THE MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCESS ROYAL.
31. 31.CHAPTER XXXI. — DEATH OF THE DUTCHESS D'ORLEANS—THE PRINCE CONSORT'S VISIT TO GERMANY—THE QUEEN AND PRINCE CONSORT'S VISIT TO PRINCE AND PRINCESS FREDERICK WILLIAM AT BABELSBERG.
32. 32.CHAPTER XXXII. — BIRTH OF PRINCE WILLIAM OF PRUSSIA—DEATH OF PRINCE HOHENLOHE— VOLUNTEER REVIEWS—SECOND VISIT TO COBURG—BETROTHAL OF PRINCESS ALICE.
33. 33.CHAPTER XXXIII. — DEATH OF THE DUCHESS OF KENT.
34. 34.CHAPTER XXXIV. — LAST VISIT TO IRELAND—HIGHLAND EXCURSIONS—MEETING OF THE PRINCE OF WALES AND THE PRINCESS ALEXANDRA OF DENMARK—DEATH OF THE KINO OF PORTUGAL AND HIS BROTHERS
35. 35.CHAPTER XXXV. — THE DEATH OF THE PRINCE CONSORT.
36. 36.CHAPTER XXXVI. — THE WITHDRAWAL TO OSBORNE—THE PRINCE CONSORT'S FUNERAL.
37. 37.CHAPTER XXXVII. — THE FIRST MONTHS OF WIDOWHOOD—MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCE OF WALES, ETC., ETC.
38. 38.CHAPTER XXXVIII.
39. 39.CHAPTER XXXIX. — STAY AT HOLYROOD—DEATHS OF PRINCESS HOHENLOHE AND OF PRINCE FREDERICK OF DARMSTADT—MARRIAGE OF THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH.
40. 40.CHAPTER XL. — BIRTH OF THE FIRST GREAT-GRANDCHILD—MARRIAGE OF THE DUKE OF ALBANY— CONCLUSION.

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