From the windows of this room we can imagine the little princess, when she rose in the morning, gazing out over the gardens and the Park beyond, as the beams of the eastern sun struggled through the mists and smoke of distant London, musing on the mighty destiny awaiting her; or in the evening hour, when the flower-scented air of the garden beneath floated in at the casement, looking out where the far-off lights of the great town twinkled among the trees, her mind filled with solemn thoughts of the awful responsibility that was to be hers. Even now, when the building octopus, with its stucco tentacles, has clutched and sucked in so many a fair surrounding green field, from these windows not a roof, not a chimney meets the eye; not an echo, even, of the ceaseless roar of the traffic strikes the ear. It was in this room that the Queen was sleeping on the memorable morning of the 20th of June, 1837, when she was awakened by her mother, the Duchess of Kent, to go to the Drawing Room downstairs, where Lord Conyngham and the Archbishop of Canterbury were awaiting to inform her of her accession to the throne. The dimensions of this room are: 23 feet 3 inches long, 19 feet 3 inches wide, and 16 feet high. Prints of the Life and Reign of the Queen. Prints in continuation of the series commenced in "The Nursery," are in process of being arranged in this room. Mementoes and Relics of the Queen's Childhood, collected in "Queen Victoria's Bedroom." Here also will be arranged some of the Queen's toys, with which she played as a little girl in these rooms; and perhaps other similar objects of interest. Labels will, doubtless, be affixed to explain, what these are. [Illustration: Decoration] =King's Gallery.= This magnificent gallery, the finest of all the state rooms at Kensington Palace, was designed and built by Sir Christopher Wren for William III. about the year 1693. It owes much of its architectural effect to the great architect's wonderful knowledge and appreciation of proportion--an element too often disregarded in buildings of modern times. Its length is 96 feet, its breadth 21 feet 6 inches, and its height 18 feet to the top of the cornice, and 19 feet 8 inches to the highest point of the ceiling. It is, therefore, 12 feet longer than the already-described Queen Mary's Gallery, 2 feet higher, but of the same width. Compared with it, the "King's or Cartoon Gallery" at Hampton Court, built by Wren almost exactly at the same time, it is 21 feet less long, 3 feet less wide, and 10 feet less high. In relation to it the following items from the old accounts, dating from about the year 1693, are interesting: "Item to Richard Hawkesmore, Clerk of the Workes, for making up an account [an estimate?] of the King's New Gallery at Kensington--£5." "More to him for Pasteboard and other Materialls for making a modell of the said Gallery for the King--£5 2_s._"