John Brown (_From a Photograph by G. W. Wilson and Co., Aberdeen_) 665 The Parish Church, Crathie 669 Braemar Castle 669 General Gordon (_From a Photograph by Adams and Scanlan, Southampton_) 673 Khartoum 677 Sir Stafford Northcote, afterwards Lord Iddesleigh (_From a Photograph by Barraud, Oxford Street_) 680 The Citadel, Cairo 681 Balmoral Castle, from Craig Nordie (_From a Photograph by G. W. Wilson and Co._) 685 Funeral of the Duke of Albany: the Procession Entering Windsor Castle 688 View in Claremont Park 689 The Linn of Dee (_From a Photograph by G. W. Wilson and Co._) 693 The Queen Receiving the Abyssinian Envoys at Osborne 696 Prince Henry of Battenberg (_From a Photograph by Theodor Prümm, Berlin_) 700 Princess Beatrice (_From a Photograph by Hughes and Mullins, Ryde_) 701 The Queen in her State Robes _To face_ 705 Mr. Gladstone (_From a Photograph by Elliott and Fry_) 705 Drawing-Room in Buckingham Palace 709 Map of the War in the Soudan 716 Marriage of the Princess Beatrice 721 Opening of Parliament in 1886: the Royal Procession in Westminster Palace on the way to the House of Peers 725 Lord Tennyson (_From a Photograph by H. H. H. Cameron, Mortimer Street, W._) 729 Opening of the Indian and Colonial Exhibition: The Queen’s Tour 733 The Queen’s Visit to Edinburgh (1886): Her Majesty Leaving Holyrood Palace 737 The Crown Prince, afterwards the Emperor Frederick III. of Germany (_From a Photograph by Reichard and Lindner, Berlin_) 745 The Crown Princess, afterwards the Empress Victoria of Germany (_From a Photograph by Reichard and Lindner, Berlin_) 745 The Jubilee Garden Party at Buckingham Palace: The Royal Tent 749 [Illustration: OSBORNE, FROM THE SOLENT.] CHAPTER XVI. THE ILLNESS OF THE PRINCE OF WALES.