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THE VICTORIAN ERA CELEBRATES ITS SIXTIETH YEAR Years a Wife, and Thirty-Six a Widow THE VICTORIAN ERA CELEBRATES ITS SIXTIETH YEAR Years a Wife, and Thirty-Six a Widow. 1''1 Years a Maid, Twenty-Two Victoria ’ Twentv-One ...... VIPTORIA, MARY OF TECK, DUCHESS OF YORK. Born 1667, Married 1S93. THE QUEEN IN 1S73. VICTORIA ALEXANDRIA. of India, (The Ideal portrait of the Italian artist, Peccovinnl. Queen of Great Britain and Ireland and Empress horn May 24, 1819. 1 of It /JT-SlXTtCtf London, June 19.—To-morrow Vic- mense sum of money during the sixty expense of keeping ten servants for I has secured the succession for foui | through tii* streets London. will toria Regina, ruler of Great Britain years of her reign. She has worked them. generations to come. be follow by illuminations at night. and India, begins the celebration of her faithfully and has demanded the high- The Princess Louise receives $30,000 She was married February 10, 1840, On Wednesday, June 23, there will diamond jubilee. She has been on the est sum for her services. She has giv- a year, an addition to about an equal to Albert, Prince of Saxe-Coburg Gotha, be a garden party at Buckingham Pal- throne sixty years, having succeeded en nothing away, but is supposed to sum paid her husband, the Marquis of and later in The same year a Princess ace, to which thousands have been her uncle, William IV.. on June 20, have hoarded the money paid her by I Lome, for work in the royal art gal- Koyal was born. During the next invited, and for which invitations have 1837. at 4 o'clock iu the morning. the British public until she is now, in leries, where he is “Lord of the Hang- eighteen years nine children came, fol- sold for fabulous sums, many decayed Her uncle Leopold and England’s popular estimation, one of the richest ings.” The Duke of Connaught gets lowing each other in such rapid suc- members of titled families having sold their tickets for a fortune. ministers of state drove post haste to women in th'1 world. Tha amount p ud $125,000 a year, certain military ser- cession that any other woman would the home of the Duchess of Kent to in- former sovereigns was paltry compared j vices being required of him; and the have begged to be excused; and no The court on Thursday, June 24, will move to form the girl Victoria, then scarcely to Victoria’s yearly salary, but, as she Princess Beatrice, the queens “baby,” queen serving her country less faith- in semi-state Windsor. Troops it to her Duke is will line the route to sta- eighteen, that she had become queen of expressed uncle, Leopold, paid $30,000. Beatricn has a court fully than Victoria would have wel- , Paddington England. The Queen was asleep, and after the birth of her firstchild, the duty to perform, her task being to comed them. But there was always | tion. Her Majesty will leave the train Princess now the with at and will drive with an es- for a while could not realize her posi- Royal, Empress breakfast her mother every morn-1 room for a baby at Windsor, the queen Slough, I tion. Frederick: 1“ was called to the throne ing and read the papers to her during feeling that England's prosperity de- cort of the Life Guards, by way of without my own volition, and since I the Eton, to Windsor, taking this route in To-night the queen will do little day. manded all of her. When her eldest am Then there are ever so order to enable the of the Eton sleeping, for she will be kept awake prohibited by Parliamentary usage many other child, “Viekey,” married Frederick of boys and custom from own liv- which must be borne public school to receive her majesty. by the firing of sixty cannon and the earning my expenditures by Germany, the queen consoled herself it is to for the British for the of On there will be another roy- salute of sixty guns which will be sent ing, my duty provide myself people support by playing with Beatrice, then only a Friday and as well as the the The children of the al banquet, this time at Windsor Cas- up aloug the entire coast of the British my family though royal family. few months old. professions and paths of commerce Prince of four in number, each tle, and on Saturday will take plac" Isles, beginning at 12 midnight. In Wales, If Victoria dies to-morrow, as *t is were open to them and to me.” receive $1S0,000 a year,.with the ex- the naval review at Spithead, which the * the sixty years that have passed since feared she may in the excitement of f*1 ception of the Duchess of Fife, whose queen will probably not attend, much the sue ession the queen has accom- The salary paid by the British peo- the jubilee, she will leave behind her husband, the rich Duke of Fife, will to the regret of the navy. plished more for England than any oth- ple to Victoria is $1,925,000 a year. Her sixty-five living descendants—-children, not allow his wife to take a cent of She has promised to attend the re- er sovereign that ever ruled that coun- homes—Windsor, Buckingham and grandchildren and greatgrandchildren British money. Then there are ever so view of the Duke of Connaught's try. not excepting the virgin Queen Balmoral—are kept up for her. Grasse —and heirs to the throne for the best many others that are pensioned. The troops at Aldershot, June 29. Elizabeth, whose strides in art and. is maintained for her and the Villa part of a c ?ntury to come. Sho»:d lit- Duke of Cambridge, the queen's cousin, I In all this the queen will be upheld whose talent for keeping the peace Fabricotti, in Italy, is hired for her an- tle Prince Edward, who will be three her the of now made her the wonder of the Elizabeth- gets $60,000 a year; the Duchess of by son. Prince Wales, a nually. Besides this, her eldest son, years old Tuesday, grow up and marry Teck (mother of the Duchess of York*, 1 man approaching sixty, and her grand- an era. the Prince of Wales, gets $200,000 a successfully, he will continue the line gets $25,000 a year, and the Duchess of son, the Duke of York, a stalwart fel- i True, she has had a longer time in year, out of which he maintains him- In the next century so faithfully pro- Albany, widow of one of the queen's low of thirty. Both of them to be which to accomplish a life work, but self only, for Sandringham is granted mulgated in this one. j sons, receives kings! When? oun the to him for a home. The $30,000 annually. observing laws of proportion Princess of The services to-morrow begin with When one of the children The queen has now nothing to live the queen has made room for more ad- Wales gets $50,000 a year with which queen's a religious observance at Frogmore,1 Parliament a of for. She outreigned every other vaui-ement and offered more facilities to clothe herself. marries. grants dowry Eng- Windsor, where there is a mausoleum and when a lish sovereign last fall, and now, hav- for improvement in of art, $150,000, grandchild mar- every^lLue Of the queen's other the erected to the memorv of the Prince children, ries the sum of ing completed her desire—“sixty years science and the any $50,000. professions/'than Dowager Empress Frederick of Ger- Consort and the the In addition to these the queen’s mother, on the throne”—she can herself of her predecessors. Though conser- trifles, queen lay many gets $40,000 a year. The Duke of late Duchess of Kent. The queen and gets $250,000 annum from the down in peace to be chiselled in mar- vative herself, she has encouraged per Ducny * f Edinburgh, now practically the King the royal family will be present. /''AT TWENTY i oua / of Lancaster and an immense grant ble alongside her predecessors—a his- pioneers. Though a home woman and of Saxe-Coburg Gotha, gets $50,000 an from India. She On tho June toric one who has never been further out of also receives large Monday following, 21, memory. nuallv, besides the sum received from the Court will move in semi-state to EDWARD her country than to Italy, for a month money gifts, as nothing pleases her so GILES DEXTER. his own And kingdom. the Princess well as London, and that there will --o-— very winter, she has insisted the money. At the jubilee celebra- evening upon j Christian is paid $20,000 a year. The tion ten be a banquet at Buckingham Palace in gathering together of territory in all I years ago the queen was given Prince, her Is husband, the royal gar- honor of the guests. It will be quarters of the globe, and has read £350,000 by the “women of England,” royal ! dener of and Kew, receives $20,000 an- on followed a for the mem- with gladness how the British flag and her birthday every spring she by reception j nually for his services. live They in a a sum from her bers of the and the floats on every ocean and in every gets big counties. diplomatic corps cottage connected with the castle, for clime.
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