Our dear Victoria was this day engaged to Prince Frederick William of Prussia, who had been on a visit to us since the 14th. He had already spoken to us on the 20th, of his wishes; ...
Article : 142 wordsAt twenty minutes past 11 we started with Helena and Louise in the sociable, Grant on the box, for Loch Bulig, passing the farms of Blairglass and of Dall Dounie, and the shooting ...
Article : 680 wordsLooked anxiously at the weather at 7 o'clock there had been a little rain, there was still mist on the hills, and it looked doubtful. However, Albert said it, would be best to keep to the ...
Article : 1,545 wordsI felt very low-spirited at my dearest Albert having to leave at 1 o'clock for Aberdeen, to preside at the meeting of the British Association. ...
Article : 385 wordsAt 12 o'clock I drove off with the two girls to the "Irons," were we mounted our ponies, and rode up (Brown and Robertson attending on foot) through the Corrie Buie, along the pretty ...
Article : 353 wordsTo Kirk at 12 o'clock. The Rev. J. Caird, one of the most celebrated preachers in Scotland, performed the service, and electrified all present by a most admirable and beautiful sermon, which ...
Article : 156 wordsArrived this evening after a most interesting tour; I will recount the events of the day. Breakfasted at Balmoral in our own room at half-past 7 o'clock, and started at 8 or a little ...
Article : 1,732 wordsOn arriving at Balmoral at 7 o'clock in the evening, we found the tower finished as well as the offices, and the poor old house gone! The effect of the whole is very fine. ...
Article : 42 wordsWe walked along the river and outside the house. The new offices and the yard are excellent; and the little garden on the west side, with the eagle fountain which the King of ...
Article : 117 wordsAlas! the last day! When we got up the weather seemed very hopeless. Everything was white with snow, which lay, at least, an inch on the ground, and it continued snowing heavily, ...
Article : 1,095 wordsI heard by telegram last night that Albert's reception was admirable, and that all was going off as well as possible. Thank God. I ascended Loch-na Gar with Alice, Helena, Bertie, Lady ...
Article : 100 wordsEvery year my heart becomes more fixed in this dear Paradise, and so much more so now, that all has become my dearest Albert's own creation, own work, own building, own laying ...
Article : 71 wordsSeptember 8, 1857. At half-past 1 o'clock we started in "Highland state,"—Albert in a royal Stuart plaid, and I and the girls in skirts of the same,—with the ladies (who had only returned at 5 in the ...
Article : 210 wordsThe morning dawned brightly. Suddenly a very high wind arose which alarmed up, but yet it looked bright, and we hoped the wind would keep off the rain; but after breakfast, while ...
Article : 645 wordsBreakfast at half-past 8. At ten minutes to 9 we started, in the sociable, with Bertie and Alice and our usual attendants. Drove along the opposite side of the river. The ...
Article : 899 wordsAlbert went out with Alfred for the day, and I walked out with the two girls and Lady Churchill, stopped at the shop and made some purchases for poor people and others; drove a ...
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The Queenslander (Brisbane, Qld. : 1866 - 1939), Sat 13 Jun 1868, Page 2
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