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By EVA MARCH TAPPAN, Ph.D.

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[Illustration: Her Majesty the Queen in her state robes.
(_From painting by Alfred F. Chalon, R.A., 1838._)]



Makers of England Series



IN THE DAYS

OF

QUEEN VICTORIA



By

EVA MARCH TAPPAN, Ph.D.

AUTHOR OF "IN THE DAYS OF ALFRED THE GREAT," "IN THE DAYS OF
WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR," "IN THE DAYS OF QUEEN ELIZABETH," ETC.

_ILLUSTRATED FROM FAMOUS PAINTINGS AND ENGRAVINGS AND FROM
PHOTOGRAPHS_



BOSTON:
LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO.

Published, August, 1903

COPYRIGHT, 1903, BY LEE AND SHEPARD
_All rights reserved_

IN THE DAYS OF QUEEN VICTORIA




PREFACE


To her own people Queen Victoria was England itself, the emblem of the
realm and of the empire. To millions who were not her people the words
"the Queen" do not bring even yet the thought of the well-beloved woman
who now shares the English throne, but rather of her who for nearly
sixty-four years wore the crown of Great Britain and gave freely to her
country of the gift that was in her.

Other women have been controlled by devotion to duty, other women
have been moved to action by readiness of sympathy, but few have
united so harmoniously a strong determination to do the right with
a never-failing gentleness, a childlike sympathy with unyielding
strength of purpose.

Happy is the realm that can count on the list of its sovereigns one
whose career was so strongly marked by unfaltering faithfulness, by
honesty of aim, and by statesmanlike wisdom of action.

EVA MARCH TAPPAN.

WORCESTER, MASS.
_February, 1903._




CONTENTS


CHAPTER                                           PAGE

   I. BABY DRINA,                                    1

  II. THE SCHOOLDAYS OF A PRINCESS,                 21

 III. EXAMINATION DAY,                              43

  IV. A QUEEN AT EIGHTEEN,                          68

   V. THE CORONATION,                               89

  VI. THE COMING OF THE PRINCE,                    114

 VII. HOUSEKEEPING IN A PALACE,                    138

VIII. A HOME OF OUR OWN,                           163

  IX. NIS! NIS! NIS! HURRAH!                       186

   X. THE ROYAL YOUNG PEOPLE,                      212

  XI. THE QUEEN IN SORROW,                         235

 XII. THE LITTLE FOLK,                             259

XIII. MOTHER AND EMPRESS,                          278

 XIV. THE JUBILEE SEASON,                          299

  XV. THE QUEEN AND THE CHILDREN,                  319

 XVI. THE CLOSING YEARS,                           338




ILLUSTRATIONS


Her Majesty the Queen in her state robes. (_From painting
by Alfred E. Chalon, R.A., 1838_)                     _Frontispiece_

                                                       _Facing page_

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent and Princess Victoria
(_From painting by Sir W. Beechey, R.A._)                        16

The Princess Victoria at the age of eleven                       46

The coronation of Queen Victoria. (_From painting by Sir
George Hayter_)                                                 110

Albert, Prince Consort, in the uniform of a field marshal       136

The Queen in 1845. (_From a painting by John Partridge_)        158

Queen Victoria; Prince Albert; Victoria, Princess Royal;
Albert Edward, Prince of Wales; Prince Alfred; Princess
Alice; Princess Helena. (_From a painting by F. Winterhalter,
1848_)                                                          188

Westminster Abbey                                               216

Balmoral Castle                                                 244

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