Chapter X: June, July, and August, 1838

Thunderstorms — Lord Durham — Don Giovanni — New Zealand
— Eton Montem — Lord Barham — Miss Chaworth and Byron
— Lord Melbourne’s household — Visit to Eton — King
Leopold’s position — Lord Melbourne’s reminiscences —
Public School education — Irish legal difficulties —
O’Connell — Eton and Ascot — South Sea Co. — The Order
of the Bath — Coronation Honours — Lord Melbourne and
the Garter — Marshal Soult — Coronation Day — Procession
to Westminster — The ceremony — The procession — After
the Coronation — The peerage — Illuminations — Lord
Melbourne on the ceremony — Kings and usurpers — Review
in Hyde Park — Popularity of enemies — Soult at Eton —
Family questions — Sir E. Lyons — Prince Royal of Bavaria
— Dukedoms — The Sheridan family — Lady Seymour — Lord
Shelburne’s marriage — A dinner party and reception —
George III.’s sons — And his illnesses — Lady Sarah
Lennox — Mehemet Ali — Lord Melbourne and King Leopold
— Statues — The Queen’s Speech — Lord Melbourne on Lord
Brougham — Wellington — Belgium and Holland dispute — The
Irish — Persian affairs — Pozzo di Borgo — Lord Howick —
Belgian affairs — Russian influence — Jewels — Duke of
Sussex — Lord North — Mexican affairs — Concerning books
— Lady Holland — George III.’s Prime Ministers — Colonial
policy 336–398

_from a picture by R. Westall R. A. at Windsor Castle_]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

VOL. I

H.R.H. PRINCESS VICTORIA AND “DASHY.” _From a picture by R.
Westall, R.A., at Windsor Castle_ _Frontispiece_

FACING PAGE

VICTOIRE CONROY. _From a sketch by Princess Victoria_ 48

*H.R.H. PRINCESS SOPHIA. _From a portrait by Sir W. Ross_ 62

*H.S.H. PRINCESS ADELAIDE OF HOHENLOHE-LANGENBURG. _From a
portrait by Gutekunst_ 96

*H.S.H. PRINCESS SOPHIA OF SAXE-COBURG, COUNTESS
MENSDORFF-POUILLY. _From a portrait by Dickinson_ 122

CHARLES MATHEWS. _From a sketch by Princess Victoria_ 148

*H.S.H. PRINCE ALBERT OF SAXE-COBURG, AGED NINE. _From a
portrait by Schneider, after Eckhardt_ 158

MADAME MALIBRAN. _From a sketch by Princess Victoria_ 168

GIPSY WOMEN. _From a sketch by Princess Victoria_ 182

LUIGI LABLACHE. _From a sketch by Princess Victoria_ 190

*H.M. QUEEN ADELAIDE. _From a portrait by Sir W. Ross_ 204

*H.R.H. PRINCESS VICTORIA. _From a portrait by R. J. Lane_,
1829 212

*H.S.H. CHARLES, PRINCE OF LEININGEN. _From a portrait by R. J.
Lane_ 248

*H.R.H. THE DUCHESS OF KENT. _From a portrait by Stone_ 290

H.S.H. PRINCE FERDINAND OF SAXE-COBURG, AFTERWARDS KING-CONSORT
OF PORTUGAL. _From a sketch by Princess Victoria_ 326

*H.S.H. FEODORA, PRINCESS OF HOHENLOHE-LANGENBURG. _From a
portrait by Gutekunst_, 1830 362

*H.R.H. THE DUC DE NEMOURS. _From a portrait by Eugene Lami_ 394

NOTE.—The illustrations marked * are taken from the Queen’s private
albums, in which she kept portraits of relations and friends,
specially painted for her.