Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1901 — CHRONOLOGY OF THE QUEEN'S LIFE. [ARTICLE]

CHRONOLOGY OF THE QUEEN'S LIFE.

1819, May 24—Bora at Kennington Palac% London. 1820, Jan. 23—Duke of Kent died. 1837, June 20-Wllliam IV., King of England, uncle of Victoria, died. 1837, June 28—Coronation of Queen Vlct» ria, In Westminster Abbey. 1837, Nov. 20—Queen opened her first Parliament. 1839, Oct. 15—Queen proposed marriage to Prince Consort. 1840, Feb. 10—Married to Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg Gotha. 1840, Nov. 21—Birth of Victoria Adelaide, Princess Royal, 1841, Nov. 9—Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, born. 1842, Sept. I—Queen’s first visit to Scotland. 1846, June 26—Corn law repealed. 1848, Nev. 24—Lord Melbourne, Queen’s first Prime Minister, died. 1854, Feb. 28—Declaration of war against Russia. 1859, May I—Thanksgiving for suppression of Indian mutiny. 1861—Duchess of Kent, Queen’s mother, died. 1861, Dec. 14—Prince Consort died. 1863, March 10—Prince of Wales married Princess Alexandra. 1868, Jan. 28—Queen’s first book published. 1872, Feb. 29 —Queen shot at by Arthur O'Connor. 1876, May I—Proclaimed Empress of India. 1883, March 27—John Brown, the Queen's faithful servant, died. 1887, June 24—Celebration of the Queen's golden jubilee. 1892, Jan. 2—Duke of Clarence and Avondale died. *■ 1893, July 6—Duke of York-married to the Princess May. 1894, May 21—Inaugurated Manchester Ship Canal. • 1896, Sept. 23—Reign exceeded the length of any other English sovereign’s. 1897, June 24—Celebration of diamond jubilee. 1899, Oet. 12—War declared In South Africa. 1900, May 24—Celebrated eighty-first birthday. _ 1900, May 30—Pretoria capitulated.

BORN TO BE KING. Queen Victoria’s Eldest Son Educated for Throne of England. Albert Edward, *the ascendant to the British throne, was born on Nov. 9, 1841, at Buckingham Palace. As the eldest son of the sovereign he became, at the moment of his birth, the Duke of Cornwall, and before he was 4 weeks old he was created Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester by royal patent. As Duke of Cornwall he became entitled to revenues amounting to £60,000. By right of inheritance the young prince also became Duke of Rothesay and Duke of Saxe-Co-burg-Gotha, Prince of Saxony, Earl of Carrick, Earl of Dublin and Baron Renfrew, and he also has the title of Lord of the Isles. During the first few years of the prince’s life the public did not have any opportunity to see much of him. The people, nevertheless, took great interest in the prince. In 1848 the prince was intrusted to his first tutor, the Rev. Hen-

ry Mildred Birch. In the summer of the same year he visited Ireland for the first time, where he was received with great enthusiasm. He made his first official appearance in London on Oct. 30, 1849. In 1860 the prince undertook his first extensive voyage. It was decided that he should visit Canada, and return by way of the United States. He arrived at St. Johns, N. F., on’july 24, 1860, and was received with royal honors. The prince crossed to the United States on the night of Sept. 20, 1860. Though he traveled under the name of Baron Renfrew, his coming was heralded by the press, and everywhere the prince was the subject of the most intense popular interest. On Sept. 9, 1862, the Prince of Wales was formally betrothed to Princess Alexandra of Denmark, whom he had seen for the first time on the occasion of his visit in 1861. The wedding ceremony took place in St. George’s Chapel, Windsor, on March 10, 1863, a few weeks after he had taken the oath as a peer of the realm. The prince and his wife established themselves at Sandringham with an income of about £IOO,OOO a year. Five years after their marriage the prince and the princess paid a visit to Ireland. In 1868, after the birth of the fourth child, the Princess Victoria, the Prince and the Princess of Wales visited the continent together, and later made an extensive tour of the East, including Egypt and Palestine. They returned through Russia. In 1875 the Prince of Wales made his gr4at tour through India, and everywhere he was received with honors. After visiting all the great cities of India the prince and his party returned by way of the Suez canal, stopping five days in Egypt. From 1876 to 1887 the prince lived quietly and traveled but little. The princess is very much a woman and has her hobbies and her failings as have other women. One of her dear friends once said of her: “She is sweet, small, pretty, snappy, arrogant and disagreeable.” Her temper Is quick and uncertain and most disagreeable, but with all this her friend added, “she is the most lovable woman in the world.” The silver wedding of the prince and princess on March 10, 1888, was celebrated in a quiet way owing to the death of Emperor William I. of Germany. In the following year Princess Louise, the oldest daughter of the Prince of Wales, was married to the Earl of Fife. On July 6, 1893, the marriage of the Duke of York with Princess May of Teck was celebrated at the Royal Chapel, St. James*. The Emperor of Russia and the King and Queen of Denmark were present at the ceremony • In 1894 the marriage of Princess Maud of Wales to Prince Charles of Denmark took place.