PAGE Portrait of the Queen (Woodbury Process) _Frontispiece_ Distant View of Windsor Castle 1 The Royal Arms _ib._ West Front of Kensington Palace 4 King William IV. 5 Claremont 8 Death of the Duke of Kent: Presenting the Commons’ Address of Condolence to the Duchess at Kensington Palace 9 Queen Caroline’s Drawing-Room, Kensington Palace 12 Queen Adelaide 13 The Duke of Kent 16 The Queen’s First Council (_After the Painting by Sir David Wilkie._) 17 Cowes Harbour 18 Gateway of St. James’s Palace 20 Queen Victoria at the Time of her Accession 21 Lord Melbourne 24 Proclamation of the Queen at St. James’s Palace 25 Banquet to the Queen in the Guildhall (November 9, 1837) 29 President Van Buren 33 The Earl of Durham 36 The Throne-Room, Buckingham Palace 37 The Coronation Chair, Westminster Abbey 40 The Coronation of the Queen (_After the Painting by Sir George Hayter_) 41 The Queen Receiving the Sacrament at her Coronation (_After the Painting by C. R. Leslie, R.A._) _To face_ 44 The Duchess of Kent 45 Newark Castle 48 Mr. Disraeli in his Youth (_After the Portrait by Maclise_) 49 The Council Chamber, St. James’s Palace 53 Coburg (_After a Sketch by Prince Albert_) 57 Prince Albert 61 The Marquis of Lansdowne 64 Interior of the Chapel Royal, St. James’s 65 Courtyard of St. James’s Palace 68 Duke Ernest, of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Prince Albert’s Brother 69