Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle
King William IV
William IV. was a man of very moderate abilities; but a certain simplicity and geniality of character had secured for him the regard and respect of the people, and had carried him through the revolutionary epoch of the Reform Bill with no great loss of popularity, even at a time when he was supposed to be unfriendly to the measure. For the last two years he had ceased to take any interest in the political tendencies of the day, while discharging the routine duties of his high office with conscientious regularity.
The Royal Arms
The Royal Arms
West Front of Kensington Palace
In the dawn of June 20th, 1837, immediately after the death of King William IV., the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Lord Chamberlain left Windsor for Kensington, to convey the tidings to his late Majesty’s successor. They reached the Palace about five o’clock in the morning, and knocked, rang, and beat at the doors several times before they could obtain admission. When at length the porter was aroused, the visitors were shown into one of the lower rooms, where a long time passed without any attention being paid them. Growing impatient, they rang the bell, and desired that the attendant on the Princess Victoria might be sent to inform her Royal Highness that they requested an audience on business of importance. Another long delay ensued, and again the bell was rung, that some explanation might be given of the difficulty which appeared to exist. On the Princess’s attendant making her appearance, she declared that her Royal Highness was in so sweet a sleep that she could not venture to disturb her. It was now evident that stronger measures must be taken, and one of the visitors said, “We have come on business of State to the Queen, and even her sleep must give way to that.” The attendant disappeared, and a few minutes afterwards the young sovereign came into the room in a loose white robe and shawl, her fair hair falling over her shoulders, her feet in slippers, her eyes dim with tears, but her aspect perfectly calm and dignified
Death of the Duke of Kent - Presenting the commons’ address of condolence to the Duchess at Kensington Palace
But the unusually severe winter of 1819-20 induced the Duke and Duchess to visit Sidmouth, for the sake of the mild climate of Southern Devonshire. At Salisbury Cathedral, to which he made an excursion during the frosty weather, the Duke caught a slight cold, which, after his return to Sidmouth, became serious, owing, it would seem, to neglect and imprudence. According to the medical custom of those days, the patient was copiously bled, and not improbably owed his death to the exhaustion thus occasioned. He expired on the 23rd of January, 1820, in his fifty-third year; and so small were his means that he left the Duchess and the Princess totally devoid of maintenance. Such was the statement made long afterwards by Leopold of Saxe-Coburg, who was with his sister during the days of her trial and bereavement. Soon after the fatal event, the Prince accompanied the widowed lady to London, where addresses of condolence were voted by both Houses of Parliament. The address of the Commons was presented by Lords Morpeth and Clive, when the Duchess of Kent appeared with the infant Princess in her arms.
Queen Caroline’s Drawing-Room, Kensington Palace.
Queen Caroline’S Drawing-Room, Kensington Palace.
Distant View of Windsor Castle
Distant View of Windsor Castle
President van Buren
The Irish Rebellion of 1848
Forging Pikes
Virgin Forest in Canada
William Smith O’Brien
In 1845 Davis died, and the leadership of the Party passed into the hands of William Smith O’Brien, his lieutenants being John Mitchel and John Martin. All three were Protestants. Mr. Smith O’Brien was descended from King Brian Borhoimè—who played the part of Alfred the Great in Irish history. A brother of Lord Inchiquin, he was an aristocrat and a Tory, with frigid manners, and a high and chivalrous sense of honour. He had drifted into the “Young Ireland” Party, firstly, because fourteen years’ experience of the Imperial Parliament convinced him that it could not legislate wisely for Ireland, and, secondly, because he despaired of any other Party obtaining for Ireland the only Government that could lift her to her place among the nations. As a speaker he was cold, logical, and stilted. But he had a severe and ascetic sense of public duty, and his fidelity and truthfulness secured for him the unswerving loyalty of his followers.
Sir George Grey
The Queen Visiting a Cornish Iron Mine
Marriage of Queen Victoria
The Throne-Room, Buckingham Palace
Proclamation of the Queen at St. James’s Palace
Daniel O’Connell
Duke Ernest, of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Prince Albert’s Brother
Falmouth Harbour
Favourite Dogs
Dr Whewell
Queen Victoria at the Time of her Accession
The Battle of Ferozeshah
From an Etching by the Queen
The Queen’s First Council
St. Stephen’s Cloisters, Westminster Hall
George Wilson, Chairman of the Anti-Corn-Law League
Arrival of the Royal Procession at the House of Lords
The Exchange and Frederick’s Bridge, Berlin
The Coronation Chair, Westminster Abbey
Queen Adelaide
The Houses of Parliament
Cathedral of St. Isaac, St. Petersburg
Feargus O’Connor
Eldred Pottinger at Herat
Newark Castle
Richard Cobden
Buckingham Palace
Highland Cottages in Lochaber
The Earl of Durham
Banquet to the Queen in the Guildhall
The Queen Receiving the Sacrament at her Coronation
Prince Albert
Westminster Hall
Demonstration of Sailors in Favour of the Navigation Laws
Charles Gavan Duffy (1848)
The Coronation of the Queen
John Henry Newman
Prince Albert’s Music-Room, Buckingham Palace
Christening of the Princess Louise in Buckingham Palace Chapel
Interior of the Chapel Royal, St. James’s
The Duchess of Kent
Sir Henry Hardinge
Gateway of St. James’s Palace
The Municipal Dignitaries of Penryn introduced to the Prince of Wales
Dost Mahomed
Burning of the House of Assembly
The Bank of England
Burleigh House, Stamford
The Overland Route