The Girlhood of Queen Victoria: A Selection from Her Majesty's Diaries Between the Years 1832 and 1840, Tập 2Longmans, Green & Company, 1912 |
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Trang 21 - George II. (other than the issue of princesses married .into foreign families) is capable of contracting matrimony, without the previous consent of the king signified under the great seal ; and any marriage contracted without such consent is void.
Trang 198 - I said to him, that I thought he must be aware why I wished [him] to come here, and that it would make me too happy if he would consent to what I wished (to marry me); we embraced each other over and over again, and he was so kind, so affectionate; Oh!
Trang 194 - Albert really is quite charming, and so excessively handsome, such beautiful blue eyes, an exquisite nose, and such a pretty mouth with delicate moustachios and slight but very slight whiskers; a beautiful figure, broad in the shoulders and a fine waist.
Trang 125 - Soon after this Sir Robert said: 'Now, about the Ladies,' upon which I said I could not give up any of my Ladies, and never had imagined such a thing. He asked if I meant to retain all. 'All,' I said. 'The Mistress of the Robes and the Ladies of the Bedchamber?
Trang 126 - Duke, was Sir Robert so weak that even the Ladies must be of his opinion ? The Duke denied that. The Duke then took my decision to Sir Robert, who was waiting in the next room ; after a few minutes Sir Robert returned — and I have already related what then took place.
Trang 114 - The conclusion of the paper was, " Your Majesty had better express your hope that none of Your Majesty's Household, except those who are engaged in Politics, may be removed.
Trang 89 - He nevertheless succeeded in passing several ameliorative measures which later culminated in the Land Purchase Act of 1904. Succeeding William Henry Smith as first lord of the treasury and leader of the House of Commons in...
Trang 121 - The Queen don't like his manner after . Oh! how different, how dreadfully different, to that frank, open, natural, and most kind, warm manner of Lord Melbourne.
Trang 41 - Your Majesty is too well acquainted with the nature of human affairs, not to be well aware that they cannot very long go on even as quietly as they have done for the last sixteen months.
Trang 127 - Peel, to remove the ladies of her bedchamber, cannot consent to adopt a course which she conceives to be contrary to usage, and which is repugnant to her feelings.