Queen Victoria

olid Dutch style for King William and Mary. The great architect, Sir Christopher Wren, mad

een, Queen Anne and her husband, and George the Seco

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used to play, little knowing that she would one day be Queen of England. Her doll's

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the Princess Victoria was born, and England was settli

he Fourth, the 'sailor king.' Though not in any respect a great monarch, he proved himself to be a g

year, particularly inviting all his old messmates of the Navy. He had two daughters by his marriage, an

n much service, for when he was only seventeen years of age he entered the Hanoverian army, where the discipline was severe and rigid. He afterward served in the West Indies

made him unpopular, and, owing to strong feeling on the part of

Victoire Marie Louise was the youngest daughter of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and widow of Pr

afterward they came over to England, and on May 24,

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se betimes and took a cup of coffee at six o'clock. Each servant of the household was allotted his or her regular duties, and was obliged

h the beautiful surroundings of their new home. The Duke wrote at this time of his daughter: "My little girl thrives under the influence of a Devonshire climate, and is, I am delighted to say, strong and hea

to be English both in upbringing and in feeling. His wife, who is described by those who knew her as bei

, and once in talking to a friend about his little daughter's future career he said earnestly: "Don't pray simply that hers may be a brilliant career, and exempt from those trials and s

aide, interested herself greatly in little Victoria. The Duchess now devoted herself entirely

ier, a great friend and favourite. She always had her breakfast and supper with her mother, and at nine o'clock retired to her bed, which

that of wilfulness-was due to some extent to her high spirits and abundant energy. She was especially fond of dolls, and possessed a very large number, most of which

plexion was remarkably transparent, with a soft and often heightening tinge of the sweet blush rose upon her cheeks that imparted a peculiar brilliancy to

me of the Duchess, for the second son of the Duke of Coburg, Charles Albert Augustus E

sin. He is spoken of as being a very handsome boy, "like a little angel with his fair curls," and was

, gives us a charming

ever lectured, seldom blamed; praised unwillingly; and yet the effect of his individuality was so powerful that we accomplished more than if we had been praised or blamed. When he was once asked by a rel

religious teaching they received had a deep and lasting influence upon the two boys, both at that time and in later years. But they had a thoroughly happy boyhood and did not suffer from a lack of companions. After their confirmation their father took them on a visit to several Courts in Germany, and a