. V. R. I. : Queen Victoria, her life and empire. hand that if she hadmore than one head it should be at his service I The Queen went from Osborne, embarking on the Fairy,and at Portsmouth Harbor got into the barge, being metat Portsmouth by the Duke of Norfolk, who was thenMaster of the Horse. They then drove by Emsworth andChichester to Arundel, where the Duchess of Norfolk,Lord and Lady Arundel, the Duchess of Sutherland, LordJohn Russell, Lord EUesmere, and others met them. Lord and Lady Palmerston, the Marquis of Granby,the Duke and Duchess of Bedford, the Duke of Welling-ton and his beau
. V. R. I. : Queen Victoria, her life and empire. hand that if she hadmore than one head it should be at his service I The Queen went from Osborne, embarking on the Fairy,and at Portsmouth Harbor got into the barge, being metat Portsmouth by the Duke of Norfolk, who was thenMaster of the Horse. They then drove by Emsworth andChichester to Arundel, where the Duchess of Norfolk,Lord and Lady Arundel, the Duchess of Sutherland, LordJohn Russell, Lord EUesmere, and others met them. Lord and Lady Palmerston, the Marquis of Granby,the Duke and Duchess of Bedford, the Duke of Welling-ton and his beautiful daughter-in-law. Lady Douro, andmany others were at dinner. All the castle was illumi-nated, and a great display of fireworks rejoiced the heartsof the townspeople that night. Cannon were sent fromWoolwich to fire salutes. At Burton the water in thegreat pond, which covered eighty acres, was drained awayso that all the fish might be sent as a present to Arundelfor the Queens entertainment, a pike of thirty-five poundsbeing among them, 178. QUEEN victorias MOTHER(From a picture by Winterhalter) EVENTS OF THE LATER FORTIES The party visited Petworth House, some riding andothers driving, but the Duke of Wellington contentedhimself with a ride through the town for an a very agreeable visit, a return was made to theIsle of Wight. In the autumn of 1846 the Queen and Prince Albertwent in their yacht to Plymouth, whence, in spite of badweather, they made many excursions, one up the Tamar,going first a little way up the St. Germans River, withits very pretty wooded banks. Tremarton Castle to theright, which belongs to Bertie, as Duke of Cornwall, andJats to the left. How extremely pretty! wrote the stopped here and afterwards turned back, and wentup the Tamar, the banks of which at first seemed flat,but as we proceeded the scenery became quite beauti-ful— richly wooded hills, trees growing down into thewater, and the river winding so much as to have theeffe
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