Victoria Regina, Her Court and Her Subjects, from Her Accession to the Death of the Prince-Consort, Volumen1Dodd, Mead, 1908 - 630 páginas |
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Página 83 - N., to my wedded wife, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part, according to God's holy ordinance; and thereto I plight thee my troth.
Página 58 - The Queen, having considered the proposal made to her yesterday by Sir Robert Peel, to remove the Ladies of her Bedchamber, cannot consent to adopt a course which she conceives to be contrary to usage, and which is repugnant to her feelings.
Página 33 - A worse school for a young girl, or one more detrimental to all natural feelings and affections, cannot well be imagined than the position of a Queen at eighteen, without experience and without a husband to guide and support her. This the Queen can state from painful experience, and she thanks God that none of her dear daughters are exposed to such danger.
Página 83 - On my knees before God our Creator, I Augustus Frederick promise thee Augusta Murray and swear upon the Bible, as I hope for salvation in the world to come, that I will take thee Augusta Murray for my wife...
Página 140 - They can come on and go off duty as they choose, they can remain absent hours and hours on their days of waiting, or they may commit any excess or irregularity ; there is nobody to observe, to correct, or to reprimand them. The various details of internal arrangement, whereon depend the well-being and comfort of the whole establishment, no one is cognisant of or responsible for. There is no officer responsible for the cleanliness, order, and security of the rooms and offices throughout the Palace.
Página 62 - My mind is quite made up, and I told Albert this morning of it. The warm affection he showed me on learning this gave me great pleasure. He seems perfection, and I think that I have the prospect of very great happiness before me. I love him MORE than I can say...
Página 67 - England's throne is now filled — [Exulting and protracted cheers.] Let every man in the vast and multitudinous assembly stretched out before me, who is loyal to the queen, and would defend her to the last, lift up his right hand — [The entire assembly responded to the appeal.^ There are hearts in those hands. I tell you, that if necessity required, there would be swords in them — [Awful cheering].
Página 108 - Lord Melbourne cannot satisfy himself without again stating to Your Majesty in writing what he had the honour of saying to Your Majesty respecting His Royal Highness the Prince. Lord Melbourne has formed the highest opinion of His Royal...
Página 225 - Russell; but his worst failure is that he is utterly ignorant of all moral fear; there is nothing he would not undertake. I believe he would perform the operation for the stone - build St. Peter's - or assume (with or without ten minutes...
Página 145 - The fire was more like Nebuchadnezzar's 'burning fiery furnace' than anything else I can think of; and though there is now no company at Windsor, there were at least fifteen or twenty large joints of meat roasting. Charles Murray told me that last year they fed at dinner 113,000 people. It sounds perfectly incredible; but every day a correct list is kept of the number of mouths fed ; and this does not include the ball suppers, etc., etc., but merely dinners.