And though a loving people would have had her life "roves, roses all the way" grief fell upon her when she lost the baby-Prince Alexander, eight yen after hee wedding, ' Hardly" as this blow struck, the loss of the Prince Clarence shortly" after Christmas, 1801, at_a moment when he was Joking forward to hin marriage, plunged the Prince and Princess of Wales into the deepest woe. It wea long before the grief-stricken coup! recovered from a blow which the nation, ax much us themselves. with the most poignant grief, For not living the lives of incumbents' of the high position they then filled. Two years before Alexandra's marriage, Victoria suffered the loss of her Consort, which incapacitated hee fro performances of her publi ceremonial duties for and threw upon the you the duties of a vice-qi quently under vexatious, and often cor still under most embarrassing he hat to play hee dif ficult, part, until for many. years the "Court" had its location Marlborough House rather than Windsor, or Buckingham Palace An those early youre the assailants the Crown. wielded -pen_and enoil against the Queen and the Trines of Wales, Penple of aut Feneration would hardly" fhetievs their eyes were they to see stick pictorial satires pub wed nowadays, so gross were they But the Princess was never toueh= ed. No me could level either pencil or pen a woman wh hod played the prominent part she did, years before the flux o€ time was to call upon her to il th proud position she ultimately de to this tale daw Das seems like on of bee} As Queen ompatiiot's, Hany And then she became Queen. Hes:
evershody gave of their leet] ip were pomsble the accession of her om the illuminated parchment 6.1 husband amd the consequent deva sibich wore written twelve Prayes! tion of herself did much to enshrine jef the Anutican Church, tw the kold] her in the hearts of her people embriiderel shoes from t all She had, before, been 4 remarkable Society' of Boot-teaker now she was a charming the old of thi queen, The people who had symiwoman ripon io) pathized in her griefs, and they People she came. to Were many, gloried with her in the Tennyon's fulfilment of that great destiny, tonly could wards which she had st her gold hat' of thei embroidered feet in 186: ti albums, Queen she shone until the girl of nineteen made upon Briton wilily it is] Queen Mother. wherever death Of her husband made her the
ing how tragedy the "Regina In her hour of impression that this had the sympathy: of all her people—now not her's froma the legal pain: of view, but wholly her's affection.
'That' was sympathy which has Stayed with her all the A Weicoms March Sen-king's. daughter from over the sea, long years rhe ha; been alone, That was the love which rallied the people of Britain to the support of riy snd all of her charitable Alexandra!
Sexon and Norman and Dane are we. Tot all of us Danes in our welcome to thee, Alecandrat ne, hers schemes, the love which made that lonely: figure one of the rallying points of the Empire inthe dread struggle of 1914-1919, her, thundering cheers of Welcome her, all things youthful ani Blossom under her feet!
happy lend, into earlier flowers! site Imusie, O birds, in the new badd:
Sour notes of Blessing and unnecesear: to gu into ang Abxandra for a catalogs of deeds i as noth ug compared with the impressions and loved personality, years held, i" did mo one else, the affection undemonstrative peuple sinks, nnd trumpet blarer oat. on turrets. and sine, on the windy headland flare!
our, Jubilee, steeple and spire!
bells, in the merry March But, as Sir Edward Legge haa written "There wes a Great Queen who, by her virtues set an example to every English woman and gla! there was too, a Princess who did id it is she who reigned as the consort of the First State man in Europe, Nearly 50 yeara
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