The Duke of York was born in 1739, became an admiral in 1759, and died at Monaco in 1767. =The Nursery.= The designation of "The Nursery" has been for many years applied to this room, having, it appears, been so used at one time by Queen Victoria, whose doll-house is now placed here. It was afterwards occupied by the late Duchess of Teck, and it was here that Princess May, now Duchess of York, was born, on May 26th, 1867. Its associations are, therefore, exclusively Victorian, with which its decoration--so far as it can be said to have any--accords. The "shell" of the room, however, is part of Kent's addition to the State Rooms. The dimensions of this room are 30 feet 7 inches long by 23 feet 5 inches wide, and 17 feet high to the highest point of the ceiling, 15 feet 2 inches to the top of the cornice. Pictures and Prints illustrative of the Queen's Life and Reign. A collection is here being formed by Mr. Holmes, the Queen's Librarian, of various prints, illustrative of Her Majesty's Life and Reign. Among them are old prints of the Queen as a child, and as the young Princess Victoria, Heiress to the Throne; also of the marriage of the Prince of Wales in St. George's Chapel, the Baptism of the Princess Royal, etc.; and also the Jubilee Celebration of 1887 in Westminster Abbey, from the painting by W. E. Lockhart, R.S.A. 110 The Queen's First Council in the pillared Council Chamber at Kensington Palace on 20th of June, 1837 . . . . . _After_ WILKIE. For an account of this famous scene, _see_ page 37. =Ante-Room.= As we go through the door of "The Nursery" into this ante-room, we pass from the portion of the Palace built by Kent, to the original block erected by Wren, this ante-room being a part of what was formerly one of William III.'s state rooms. Through this lobby it was that the Queen passed to the adjoining staircase when she went downstairs to receive the news of her accession. The dimensions of this room are: 19 feet 3 inches long, 10 feet 2 inches wide, and 16 feet high. Prints illustrative of the Life and Reign of the Queen. The wall space here will be devoted to further prints illustrative of the Queen's Life and Reign. [Illustration: Decoration] =Queen Victoria's Bedroom.= To future ages, if not indeed already to the present one, this plain, modestly-decorated chamber must have an interest far transcending that of the more gorgeous Georgian saloons, which we have just traversed. For, it was for many years the bedroom of our own Queen, when as a little girl of tender age she lived in quiet simplicity at Kensington Palace with her mother, the Duchess of Kent.