. Zigzag journeys in Europe : vacation rambles in historic lands. ears Queen Victoria has mourned for one of thebest husbands and one of the wisest advisers that ever a female sover-eign had. The marriage of Victoria and Albert was a love-match; not a? very common thing in unions of princes and princesses. They werefirst cousins, Alberts father and Victorias mother having been brotherand sister, the children of the Duke of Coburg; but, when they be-came engaged, their situations were very different. Victoria was theyoung queen of one of the mightiest and proudest empires on earth;Albert was,on
. Zigzag journeys in Europe : vacation rambles in historic lands. ears Queen Victoria has mourned for one of thebest husbands and one of the wisest advisers that ever a female sover-eign had. The marriage of Victoria and Albert was a love-match; not a? very common thing in unions of princes and princesses. They werefirst cousins, Alberts father and Victorias mother having been brotherand sister, the children of the Duke of Coburg; but, when they be-came engaged, their situations were very different. Victoria was theyoung queen of one of the mightiest and proudest empires on earth;Albert was,only the younger son of a poor and petty German prince,1 across whose dominion one might walk in half a day. But their relationship and the plans of their family served to bring them together at a very early age, and they were very young when their union was first thought of. Old King Leopold of Belgium : was the uncle of both of them ; and it was he who first conceived the idea of their marriage. But not a word was said to either of them VS fAf HISTORIC klA \l Illl ACE i»l it it until an affection bad erown up between them, and it wastime for the young queen to choose a partner for her hearl and throne, Ubert and Victoria met for thefirst time when they were both seven-teen years old. I In- young princeand his brother wenl to England topa) a visit to their aunt and cousin*and the young couple were broughttogether. Albert at that time wasrather short and thick-set, but fineslooking, rosy-cheeked, natural andsimple in his manners, and of a cheer]ful disposition. He took a great dealof interest in every thing about him,and while on his visit to England spent much time in playing on thepiano with his cousin Victoria, who was then a slight, graceful, andinteresting girl. She fell in love with him at once; but he, though he liked her,quickly impressed. He wrote to his Uncle Leopold thai•our cousin is very amiable, but had no stronger praise- for then ret
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