Great Britain and Her Queen

Great Britain and Her Queen

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GREAT BRITAIN AND HER QUEEN
by
ANNE E. KEELING
Author of "General Gordon: Hero and Saint," "The Oakhurst
Chronicles," "Andrew Golding," etc.
Second Edition. Revised and Enlarged, 1897

[Illustration: Queen Victoria]

[Illustration: Claremont]

CONTENTS
CHAPTER I.
THE GIRL QUEEN AND HER KINGDOM
CHAPTER II.
STORM AND SUNSHINE
CHAPTER III.
FRANCE AND ENGLAND
CHAPTER IV.
THE CRIMEAN WAR

CHAPTER V.
INDIA
CHAPTER VI.
THE BEGINNINGS OF SORROWS
CHAPTER VII.
CHANGES GOOD AND EVIL
CHAPTER VIII.
OUR COLONIES
CHAPTER IX.
INTELLECTUAL AND SPIRITUAL PROGRESS
CHAPTER X.
PROGRESS OF THE EMPIRE FROM 1887 TO 1897
CHAPTER XI.
PROGRESS OF WESLEYAN METHODISM UNDER QUEEN
VICTORIA, 1837-1897
CONCLUSION

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
Queen Victoria Claremont The Coronation of Queen Victoria
Kensington Palace Duchess of Kent Elizabeth Fry Rowland Hill Father
Mathew George Stephenson Wheatstone St. James's Palace Prince

Albert The Queen in Her Wedding-Dress Sir Robert Peel Daniel
O'Connell Richard Cobden John Bright Lord John Russell Thomas
Chalmers John Henry Newmann Balmoral Buckingham Palace
Napoleon III The Crystal Palace, 1851 Lord Ashley Earl of Derby
Duke of Wellington Florence Nightingale Lord Canning Sir Colin
Campbell Henry Havelock Sir John Lawrence Windsor Castle Prince
Frederick William Princess Royal Charles Kingsley Lord Palmerston
Abraham Lincoln and his son Princess Alice The Mausoleum Dr.
Norman Macleod Prince of Wales Princess of Wales Osborne House
Sir Robert Napier Mr. Gladstone Lord Beaconsfield Lord Salisbury
General Gordon Duke of Albany Duchess of Albany Sydney Heads
Robert Southey William Wordsworth Alfred Tennyson Robert
Browning Charles Dickens W. M. Thackeray Charlotte Brontë Lord
Macaulay Thomas Carlyle William Whewell, D.D. Sir David Brewster
Sir James Y. Simpson Michael Faraday David Livingstone Sir John
Franklin John Ruskin Dean Stanley "I was sick, and ye visited me"
Duke of Connaught The Imperial Institute Duke of Clarence Duke of
York Duchess of York Princess Henry of Battenberg Prince Henry of
Battenberg The Czarina of Russia H. M. Stanley Dr. Fridtjof Nansen
Miss Kingsley J. M. Barrie Richard Jefferies Rev. J. G. Wood Dean
Church Professor Huxley Professor Tyndall C. H. Spurgeon Dr.
Horatius Bonar Sir J. E. Millais, P.R.A. Sir Frederick Leighton, P.R.A.
Wesley preaching on his father's tomb Group of Presidents:--No. 1
Centenary Meeting at Manchester Key to Centenary Meeting Wesleyan
Centenary Hall Group of Presidents:--No. 2 Sir Francis Lycett The
Methodist Settlement, Bermondsey. London, S.E. Theological
Institution, Richmond Theological Institution, Didsbury Theological
Institution, Headingley Theological Institution, Handsworth
Kingswood School, Bath The North House, Leys School, Cambridge
Queen's College, Taunton Wesley College, Sheffield Children's Home,
Bolton Westminster Training College and Schools Group of
Presidents:--No. 3
[Illustration: The Coronation of Queen Victoria]

GREAT BRITAIN AND HER QUEEN.

[Illustration: Kensington Palace]
CHAPTER I.
THE GIRL-QUEEN AND HER KINGDOM.
Rather more than one mortal lifetime, as we average life in these later
days, has elapsed since that June morning of 1837, when Victoria of
England, then a fair young princess of eighteen, was roused from her
tranquil sleep in the old palace at Kensington, and bidden to rise and
meet the Primate, and his dignified associates the Lord Chamberlain
and the royal physician, who "were come on business of state to the
Queen"--words of startling import, for they meant that, while the royal
maiden lay sleeping, the aged King, whose heiress she was, had passed
into the deeper sleep of death. It is already an often-told story how
promptly, on receiving that summons, the young Queen rose and came
to meet her first homagers, standing before them in hastily assumed
wrappings, her hair hanging loosely, her feet in slippers, but in all her
hearing such royally firm composure as deeply impressed those heralds
of her greatness, who noticed at the same moment that her eyes were
full of tears. This little scene is not only charming and touching, it is
very significant, suggesting a combination of such qualities as are not
always found united: sovereign good sense and readiness, blending
with quick, artless feeling that sought no disguise--such feeling as
again betrayed itself when on her ensuing proclamation the new
Sovereign had to meet her people face to face, and stood