Twenty Years at Court: From the Correspondence of the Hon. Eleanor Stanley, Maid of Honour to Her Late Majesty Queen Victoria, 1842-1862

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Charles Scribner's Sons, 1916 - 404 страници
 

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Страница 72 - To eat Westphalia ham in a morning, ride over hedges and ditches on borrowed hacks, come home in the heat of the day with a fever, and (what...
Страница 72 - ... over hedges and ditches on borrowed hacks, come home in the heat of the day with a fever, and (what is worse, a hundred times) with a red mark...
Страница 69 - ... for the day of the week, and a watch for the hour of the day, you may inform yourself fully, without any other intelligence but your memory, of every transaction within the verge of the Court. Walking, chaises, leve'es, and audiences fill the morning. At night the King plays at commerce and backgammon, and the Queen at quadrille, where poor Lady Charlotte runs her usual nightly gauntlet, the Queen pulling her hood, and the Princess Royal rapping her knuckles.
Страница 72 - I can easily believe no lone house in Wales, with a mountain and a rookery, is more contemplative than this court ; and, as a proof of it, I need only tell you, Mrs.
Страница 72 - Westphalia ham in a morning; ride over hedges and ditches on borrowed hacks ; come home in the heat of the day with a fever, and, what is worse a hundred times, with a red mark on the forehead from an uneasy hat ; all this may qualify them to make excellent wives for fox-hunters, and bear abundance of ruddy-complexioned children.
Страница 73 - Lepell) walked with me three or four hours by moonlight, and we met no creature of any quality but the king, who gave audience to the vicechamberlain, all alone, under the garden wall.
Страница 71 - come into the Presence Chamber before eleven of the clock and to go to prayers, and after prayers to attend until the Queen be set at dinner...
Страница 15 - The conclusion of the paper was, " Your Majesty had better express your hope that none of Your Majesty's Household, except those who are engaged in Politics, may be removed.
Страница 110 - The boys' school is quite remarkable, and the master seems a quick, intelligent man, likely to teach well and get them on. I heard an examination on part of Exodus, and I am sure I could not have answered half the questions that they all had at their fingers' ends. The Queen and court are very much afraid of its becoming a show school, and therefore stop all visitors, except those from the Castle, as much as possible, in which they are right, for everybody is rather inclined, naturally, to come and...
Страница 145 - You see, properly speaking, it is not our fault; for the Lord Steward lays the fire only, and the Lord Chamberlain lights it.

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