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Title: Descriptive portraiture of Europe in storm and calm; twenty years' experiences and reminiscences of an American journalist, sketches and records of noted events, celebrated persons and places, national and international affairs in France, Spain, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Belgium, Austria, Hungary, Roumania, Turkey-in-Europe, Switzerland and Italy
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: King, Edward, 1848-1896
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Publisher: Springfield, Mass., C.A. Nichols
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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and outside the spheie of ordi-nary conventional society, and whichhas its expression in the levees or draw-ing-rooms in the parlors of BuckinghamPalace or St. James. Queen Victoria has associated hername with Windsor almost as closely asthat of any of hor predecessors. Eliza-beth was delighted with AVindsor Castle,and had a fine gallery and banquetinghouse built there as well as many gar-dens laid out, all of which have long agobeen swept from existence. She it waswho built the north terrace, and in hernew gallery in the latest years of the six-teenth century. Master William Shake- EUROPE IN- STORM AND CALM. OOo speares sprighth comedy of The MerryWives of Windsor was played by HerMajestys command, the poet himselfdirecting the rehearsals and the firstperformance. A few years later Ben ments, its images, and its costly fittings,and the soldiers of the Parliament huntedthe deer in the royal park and forest.To Windsor the body of Charles I. wasbrought, shortly after his execution, and
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QUEEN VICTORIA. Kroiii riioln(,riii)li liy A. I.ass;iiio. old liciiul strci-l, I,onili)n. tlonsons Music of the Oipsics waspresented at Windsor, having previouslybeen played before King James on twooccasions. When tlie ParliamentaryGenerals came in they stripped St.Georges Chapel of its plate, its vest- was carried, on the 9th of febiniary,1049, from the great hall, where Charleshad so often held stately levees, to St.Georges (hnjul, wliere it was buriedwithout bell or liook. History tells tis that Charles H. took 554 EUROPE IN STORM AND CALM. the sum of £70,000 sterling, votedafter the Restoration, for the removalof the body of Charles I. to a fittingsepulchre; but that noble monarchnever rendered any account of themoney. Under George III. there was averitable court at Windsor, and it usedto assemble on Sunda) afternoons on theterrace to listen to the music of the mili-tary bands, the King with the Queen, thechildren, and the royal suite promenad-ing up and down a lane composed of h

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