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QUEEN VICTORIA'S LETTERS.
A GREAT RULER IN A NEW EIGHT
[BY PHILIP PACK]
February 25th.
KING EDWARD.
The marriage of the Prince of Wales in 1863 y akurtis the first glimpses of the universal admiration for the beautiful Princess Alexandra, and affectionate re- ferences appear throughout the Queen's journal to “dear Alix." The Prince and Princess became at once immensely popular, and the Queen was sufficiently. Queen Victoria died but a quarter woman to be jealous of their po a century ago, but already she is a pularity. Not otherwise can be explain Sgare of history. In some respects shed the somewhat surprising attention to the psychology of the London crowd in is as remote as Queen Elizabeth or Queen the sixties. The Queen writes:- Aune. The mass of the reading public in recent years have assimilated the estimation of % Kreat woman wittily furnished by Mr. Lytton Strachey, which makes her less remote anti certainly less historical; this can now be balanced, or, more correctly, weighted by the dignified analysis published only yesterday by the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Those who prefer to compile an estimate for themselves. have the best possible base on which to found it in the second series of her Majesty's letters, published by the authority of the King, and edited with conscientious care by Mr. G. E. Buckle, which Messra John Murray have just issued.
This is a section of the Victorian ero in which correspondence of this mature, of the highest degree of authenticity, is of pecular value. The first series of letters covered a period too far removed, with all its intrinsic interest, from the present for the personal element to enter. The royal entourage could stretch far back into the eighteenth century: we found the Queen discussing the death of Charles X of France, and still almost under the tutelage of her uncle and ceaseless correspondent, King Leopold of. Belgium.
THE MIDDLE PERIOD.
In the series yet to come, dealing with! the later years, there will be ample cor roboration available and personal formation in plenty from other sources," although, as the "Archbishop remarks, There are not more than three or four men now alive who bad close and con tinuous personal relation to her during even the last decades of her reign."
What may be called the middle period, therefore, shows us the Queen at a stage of the country's history not too distant and yet not so close as to risk any lack at proper focus. It marks, too, the be ginning of the Queen's independence, that sturdy characteristic which was to rémain to the very end of a long life. The Leopold correspondence grows less and less volupinous, and the death of the Prince Consort leaves her a solitary figure, whose pathos has beer so often misunderstood.
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The Prince of Wales, even as a married man and at the age of twenty-eight, re- mained, as far as his mother was con- cerned, in statu pupillari The Queen is perturbed about the Prince's racing proclivities:-
ROMANCE OF GREAT FINANCIER.
DEATH OF LADY ZAHAROFF RECALLS SECRET WEDDING.
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It was in 1994 that the marriage took Highest open-air Temperature on 7th place when the bridegroom was a years : Lowest open-air Temperature on 8th of age, but the story of devotion dates back many years before that The Duchess of Vallafranca de la Caballeros had first been married when a girl of 17 to Francisco de Bourbon, Duke or Mar- chena, the head of one of the branches of the Spanish Bourbon family-ad, through. his mother, the Infanta Christina, a near relation of the King of Spain. WAITED FOR 20 YEARS.. Now that Sir Basil and the Duchess met at a Ascot Races are approaching. I wish ball in Madrid. The Duchess was only to repeat earnestly and seriously and a girl married to a man, who was by with reference to my letters this spring. that time a hopeless invalid. and aho that I trust you will
as my was said to be very unhappy because the Satar Uncle William TV. and Aunt, and we Spanish Court would not consent to an ourselves did; confine your visits to the annuiment of the marriage_ Baces to the two dogs Pursday and Thursday.
Dearest Bertie,
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I fear, dear Mama, that year goes round without your giving me a jobation on the subject of racing
I am always most anxious to meet your wishes, dear Mama, in every res- pect, and always regret if we are not
quita » d'accord-but” as I um past twenty-eight and have considerable knowledge of the world and society, you will, I am sure, at least I trust, allow me to use my own discretion in
matters of this kind.
BE GLADSTONE AND DISRAEL) -
To everyone outside the two circles of intimate friends the marringe was a mystery. He has been known for years as the mystery man of Europe," and the frst comment made by Society when tien for the mysterious and unexpected it was that the great £nancier'a reputa was being maintained About the long, lonely wait few knew anything.
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SECRICY OF THE MARRIAGE. The Premierships and riv:?ries of When the marriage did take place the Giladstone and Disraeli, the Americad greatest possible secrecy was preserved. Civil War, the Near Eastern question as The ceremony was in the private chapel a front-rank political problem" (with the of the Chateau of Valincourt, near Faris. Russian menace to Constantinople) are Journalists were barred from attending, to be found here in a form which will and the civil authorities silenced the commend them to the serious student newspapers. The gates of the chateau Mr. Buckle's introductory notes to each were closely guarded. A Press photo chapter are a model précis of contem-graphier who ventured near had his porary history.
camera broken, and after the wedding If the Queen's supposed dislike of Sir Basil and his bride left by motor- Gladstone has any foundation, it is not car for a mystery honeymoon to be discovered in any of her letters
Information as to the identity of the to him, or in references to him if her few guests at the wedding was refused, memoranda and letters to others. But but it was subsequently learned that the the letters of Disraeli aTS LOL only Marquess and Marchioness de Torrenher-
Celebrities other than political fit across the pages, though with no great
former Spanish Minister, were present. Eventually it became known that part of the honeymoon was spent in London, the bride and bridegroom staying at the Carlton.
It has become an established legend, livelier in tone livelier is le mot mosa and the Marquess de Cortina, a fostered during her lifetime and stillaste in spite of the atmosphere of widely believed, that Queen Victoria august officialdom--but the writer after found a certain perverse happiness in a white drops the third person. And the being thoroughly miserable, that her Queen reads "Coningsby and declares grief at the loss of her husband, was n that she has enjoyed it. duly prolonged, and even developed into a selfish pose, during which the dutien of sovereign were neglected.prominence.
The first of these two large. volumes carries a refutation of this on pearly every page. Here was a woman by no means devoid of human failings, but utterly incapable of pretence in any form
THE FRANCO-MUBSIAN WAR.
Sir Basil Zaharoff is one of the most famous of financiers and reputed to be one of the richest men in the world, His Windsor Castle, th May, 1877. father was a Greek and his mother After luncheon the great composer Armenian, but he is a naturalised French. Wagner, about whom the people in man and lives most of his time in Paris. Germany are really a little mad, wai He is the owner of one of the Paris banka brought into the corridor by Mr. and be has been regarded as now the "Cusios I had seen him with dearest largest shareholder in the company which Albert in 3, when he directed at the controls the destinies of Monte Carlo, Philharmonic Concert. He has grown but Sir Basil in a brief letter to The old and stout, and has a clever but not Times says he has no interest in the com- pleasing countenance.
pany whatever. His charitable donations have been enormous.
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Here, too, is a record which is in itself a proof of solid work carried on unswervingly in spite of private sorrows, varying health, and a tangled web of European complications. Cade, mère statistics that could be evolved from the number of entries in the Queen's journal i referring to national as apart from Beneral estimate of Queen Victoria. It private affairs, the letters received and just one, brought into being partly is right that they should, for it is an
I have often thought that there was an answered, the cipher telegrams, would be by reaction against contemporary idea, certainly lasting almost to the days amazing.
idolatry, partly by a twentieth century of my childhood, that there was some. literary sarcasm. The Queen emerges a thing not quite respectable in being an No one who reads even a portion of very human combination of contradic artist. Why, I do not know. I think we these letters to read through them all tions. But her shrewddess outweighs her are passing out of that. It may have is a formidable task, for many are ex-sentimentalism, her dignity overwhelms been on account of the feeling that tremely dull-could ever retain the mis certain petty vanities. Her iptuition. the Victorian age had that nudity-so- taken notion that the British sovereign her commonsense, her capacity for hard essentially associated with art-was & in the nineteenth century was a tolty-work, her honesty, and her genuine piety peculiarity of the foreigner-(laughter) non-thinking machine which, in remote are in these volumes shown to all the and it is, perhaps, reaction that is making dignity, dotted i's and crossed t's with world, and such qualities are suficient people so much affect it at present, (Re out knowing why.
to retain Victoria for all time in her newed laughter.) There is nothing more And this is not the only fallacy there niche among England's great rulers, natural than that you should swing from letters should finally destroy. To pick from which there have been cynical at one extreme to another. From a speech from their context passages, particularly tempts to dethrone her.
by Mr. Baldwin on British "Art. at the period of the Franco-Prussian war, proclaiming Queen Victoria a Ger mabophile is easy; but for every passage so quoted it would be possible to find another as a set-off to it.
I cannot thank you sufficiently," writea the German Crown Prince to the Queen on January 3rd, 1871, "for the warm good wishes you have always shown for Germany and for our Army." In the Queen's memorandum - of the previous September we find:"A power- ful Germany can never be dangerous to England, but the very reverse, and, our great object, should therefors be to have her friendly and cordial towards us not a happy prophecy, perhaps, but to attempt, in the light of recent events, to interpret this as any form of lack of consideration for this country would be childish
And against this must be placed the hospitality and sympathy the Queen showed, at a most difficult time, to the Emperor Napoleon III. and the Empress Eugenie, and the message her Majesty sent to the King of Prussia asking him, in the interests of suffering humanity, whether he could so shape his demands
as to enable the French to accept them." In the Alabama question the Queen displayed a stalwart sense of patriotism in face of a particularly uncompromising American attitude which was almost. Elizabethan. Posterity will doubtless pass a saner and broader verdict on the foreign policy of Queen Victoria and realise what, indeed, it is not difficult to realise, that although personal tica inevitably influenced her mental outlook, there was deep-rooted in her kul n love of England which nothing could ultimately shake Personal control, at tention to detail in naval and military affairs, ontspoken criticism of ministers, occasional arrogance and even vanity, were all part of, and proof of, a policy which could never have included any sort of compromise to the detriment of the l national dignity.
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