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HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN.
From a Photograph by Mr. Walery, London
THE

LIFE AND TIMES

OF

QUEEN VICTORIA.
BY
ROBERT WILSON.

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Illustrated.
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VOL. I.


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C A S S E L L   &   C O M P A N Y, Limited:

LONDON, PARIS & MELBOURNE.

[ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.]
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EDITORIAL NOTE.
The first Eleven Chapters of this Work are from the pen of the late Mr.Edmund Ollier, to whom the Publishers originally entrusted thecommission to write it—a commission which he was compelled to resign bythe illness which terminated in his lamented death.{iii}
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I

EARLY YEARS OF THE PRINCESS VICTORIA.
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A Remarkable Visit to Kensington Palace—Death of King William IV.—Details of his Last Days—ParliamentaryEulogies on his Character—Progress in the Last Half-Century—Ancestry of Queen Victoria—HerDescent Traced to Odoacer, King of Italy—Saxon Ancestors of her Majesty—Liberal Views of theDuke of Kent, Father of the Queen—State of the Succession after the Death of the Princess Charlotte—Marriageof the Duke of Kent, and Birth of the Princess Victoria—Christening at Kensington Palace—TheName “Victoria,” and its Associations—Death of the Duke of Kent—Kensington Palace in theSeventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries—Early Training of Victoria by her Mother—Child-Life of thePrincess—False Rumours of Ill-Health—Anecdotes of Juvenile Years—The Princess and George IV.—Accessionof William IV.—The Regency Bill—Prince Leopold and the Throne of Belgium—Studies ofthe Princess—Her Life of Retirement—Ho                        
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