The Queen's First Council.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 174, 16 October 1886, Page 5 (Supplement)

The Queen's First Council.

The demeanour of the Queen on this diffw cult and agitating occasion i8 described a§: composed and dignified She received thei homage of the nobility without any undue excitement, and her delivery of the address was an admirable specimen^ of the clear and impressive reading te» which Her Majesty ha 3 since accustomed! the public. Occasionaly Bhe glanced! towards Lord Melbourne for guidance 5 but this occurred veiy seldom, and for tho> moat ]3art her celt possession wae extraordinary. The quietude of manner was now* and then broken by touches of natural feeling which moved the hearts of all pre.* sent. Her Majesty was particularly considerate to the Royal Duke?, her unclea j; and; when the Duke of Sussex (who wa* infirm) presented himself to take the oath' of allegiance, and Was about to kneel, shot anticipated his action, kissed his cheek* and said, with great tenderness of tone and! gesture, " Do not kneel, my uncle, for I am; still Victoria, your niece " On the whole,, that day was the most memorable in. thqj Queen's life, and ita effects were seen nexfe morning in an aspect of pallor and fatigue/. An inexperienced girl, only just eighteen,, had been invested with a power which", carried with it the gravest 1 esponsibilitioSi towards innumerable millions ; and she had: f or the firet time to discharge the dutiosi of the State — duties of which Bhe could have had no practical knowledge untaE. then — under the affliction of apereonalloas,, for there can be no doubdSthat t»he was attached to her uncle, the late King. The.! lonely height of regal splendour was n&vec more sharply or intensely felt than by that, young Princess in the first hours of hec grandeur and her burden. It is true thate the death of King William was not unexpected, and that his niece had for some.; years been familial ised with the fact that Ufc the ordinary couxso of nature she Voutdi one day succeed'to the Crown. ' But de»tb is always surprising when it comes, and! the ( new monarch had seen little of the ceremonial, life of Courts before her elevation to the Throne.— Parti, of " The Life andi Times of Queen Viptoria."

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