... KAISER AND QUEEN VICTORIA The Kaiser used his private influence with Queen Victoria, while the German Foreign Office worked through the German Ambassador in London. The position of Heligoland was such that in the hands of a great sea Power it absolutely ...

... QUEEN VICTORIA AND THE IMPOST When Peel was alout instituting his income-tax of 7d. in th 2 pound on all incomes of £l5O and upwards, in 1842, Queen Vietoria decided to pay the impost. Lord Melbourne was disposed to think she was right. It would, he said ...

... REAR-ADMIRAL'S DEATH. Honoured by Queen Victoria. The death occurred last night, at Kenswick, near Worcester, of ch.t-Admiul Richard Frederick Britten, aged 67, who served in China in 1838, being present at the bombardment of Nankin. He was a lieutenant ...

... THE LATE QUEEN VICTORIA. Memorial Sérvice at Frogmore. A memorial service for the late Queen Vic. toria was held at midday to-day in the Royal Mausolenm at Frgmore, Windsor. The King and Queen were present, together with the Prince and Princess of Wales ...

... 0 scgc'u by Queen Vic ‘e Albert because of its dry anate. Queen Victoria ‘aclcd e of her p was acquai er life Queen Vic sician, Sir James »«d both with the o rheumatismm and the ...

... DEATH OF LADY VICTORIA CAMPBELL A GOD-DAUGHTER OF THE LATE QUEEN. Lady Victoria Campbell, sister of the Duke of Argyll, died last night at Edinburgh. She was a god-daughter of Queen Victoria. ...

... Queen Victoria’s Dresses Mr. Guy Laking, keeper and secretary of 'lho London ')luw':‘:. tells in the July (;’n-t Thoughts ~* that in the museum are a number of fpmmu which belong-d to King Edward and Queen Victoria. hortly after Queen ...

... directions to be buried at Kensal Green were followed by Queen Victoria, but the funeral was allowed to be private. There was & great deal of talk about the scandalous expenses of tio ceremony. Queen Victoria erected a morument over her aunt’s grave, and more ...

... THE QUEEN OF SPAIN GIVES BIRTH TO A SON TO-DAY. REUTER'S TELEC™ LM, Madrid, Friday. Queen Victoria Eugenie gave birth to a son this morning. The mother and child are both doing well. ...

... APPOINTMENT. Messrs, Huntl«y).nd Palmers. Lid., of Reading, who enjoved the distinction of «pecial .rpoim.m»m, to Her Majesty Queen Victoria and His Majesty Kin,'&i'nd VII., have now been honoured in & similar way by His Majesty King George V. ...

... Queen Victoria’s Double Mise Grace Stewart, who has died at Llangollen at an advanced age, is said to have borne an extraordinary likeness to Queen Victoria. In Jubiles year she representod the Queen in tablaux vivants, and the publication ...

... understood that the Dowager Empress is safe. The Czarnas The Crzarina—Victoria Alico—was a daughter of the late Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesso, and was thus a granddaughter of Queen Victoria. She was the youngest of four sisters, The other three are tne ...