Produced by Bethanne M. Simms and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Important Historical Books for the Young _Makers of England Series_ By EVA MARCH TAPPAN, Ph.D. _In the Days of Alfred the Great_ Cloth. Illustrated. _Net_ $1.00 _In the Days of William the Conqueror_ Cloth. Illustrated. _Net_ $1.00 _In the Days of Queen Elizabeth_ Cloth. Illustrated. _Net_ $1.00 _In the Days of Queen Victoria_ Cloth. Illustrated. _Net_ $1.00 By CALVIN DILL WILSON _The Story of the Cid Young People_ Cloth. Illustrated by J. W. Kennedy. $1.25 Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., Boston [Illustration: Her Majesty the Queen in her state robes. (_From painting by Alfred F. Chalon, R.A., 1838._)] Makers of England Series IN THE DAYS OF QUEEN VICTORIA By EVA MARCH TAPPAN, Ph.D. AUTHOR OF "IN THE DAYS OF ALFRED THE GREAT," "IN THE DAYS OF WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR," "IN THE DAYS OF QUEEN ELIZABETH," ETC. _ILLUSTRATED FROM FAMOUS PAINTINGS AND ENGRAVINGS AND FROM PHOTOGRAPHS_ BOSTON: LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO. Published, August, 1903 COPYRIGHT, 1903, BY LEE AND SHEPARD _All rights reserved_ IN THE DAYS OF QUEEN VICTORIA PREFACE To her own people Queen Victoria was England itself, the emblem of the realm and of the empire. To millions who were not her people the words "the Queen" do not bring even yet the thought of the well-beloved woman who now shares the English throne, but rather of her who for nearly sixty-four years wore the crown of Great Britain and gave freely to her country of the gift that was in her. Other women have been controlled by devotion to duty, other women have been moved to action by readiness of sympathy, but few have united so harmoniously a strong determination to do the right with a never-failing gentleness, a childlike sympathy with unyielding strength of purpose. Happy is the realm that can count on the list of its sovereigns one whose career was so strongly marked by unfaltering faithfulness, by honesty of aim, and by statesmanlike wisdom of action. EVA MARCH TAPPAN. WORCESTER, MASS. _February, 1903._ CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. BABY DRINA, 1 II. THE SCHOOLDAYS OF A PRINCESS, 21 III. EXAMINATION DAY, 43 IV. A QUEEN AT EIGHTEEN, 68 V. THE CORONATION, 89 VI. THE COMING OF THE PRINCE, 114 VII. HOUSEKEEPING IN A PALACE, 138 VIII. A HOME OF OUR OWN, 163 IX. NIS! NIS! NIS! HURRAH! 186 X. THE ROYAL YOUNG PEOPLE, 212 XI. THE QUEEN IN SORROW, 235 XII. THE LITTLE FOLK, 259 XIII. MOTHER AND EMPRESS, 278 XIV. THE JUBILEE SEASON, 299