Identifier: boyhoodofgreatki00broa (find matches)
Title: The boyhood of a great king, 1841-1858 : an account of the early years of the life of His Majesty Edward VII
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Broadley, Alexander Meyrick, 1847-1916
Subjects: Edward VII, King of Great Britain, 1841-1910
Publisher: London and New York : Harper and Brothers
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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incessAlice. It was of this very day that Queen Victoriawrote in her Journal: Fourteen happy and blessedyears have passed, and I confidently hope manymore will, and find us in old age, as we are now,happy and devotedly united. Trials we musthave; but what are they if we are together.* Between five and six in the evening, says theBaroness Bunsen, the company followed the Queenand the Prince to a room where a red curtain waslet down. We all sat in darkness till the curtainwas drawn aside, and the Princess Alice, who hadbeen dressed to represent Spring, recited some versestaken from Thomsons Seasons, enumerating theflowers which the spring scatters around, and she drama of Little Red Riding Hood, performed by the younger mem-bers of the family, and appropriate verses spoken by the PrincessAlice, who seems to have been the chosen declaimer among theprinces and princesses (Tytler, vol. ii. p. 131). Life of Queen Victoria, by Sarah Tytler, vol. ii. pp. 124-125.254 * « > u = 2 W -o a a ~
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Tableaux by the Royal Children did it very well, speaking in a distinct and pleasingmanner, with excellent modulation and a tone ofvoice like that of the Queen. Then the curtainwas (again) drawn up and the whole scene changed,and the Princess Royal represented Summer, withPrince Arthur* lying upon some sheaves, as if tiredwith the heat of the harvest work ; the PrincessRoyal also recited verses, and looked very well.Then there was another change, and Prince Alfred,with a crown of vine-leaves and a panthers skin,represented Autumn, and recited also verses, andlooked very well. Then there was a change toWinter landscape, and the Prince of Wales repre-sented Winter, with a white beard and a cloak withicicles or snow-flakes (or what looked like such),and the Princess Louise, warmly clothed, who seemedwatching the fire ; and the Prince also recited wella passage altered from Thomson. Then anotherchange was made, and all the seasons were groupedtogether, and far behind, on high, appeared th

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