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 (Dowager) at Marlborough House. All the Court will be there; I am so frightened. The English journalists say quantities of nice things about me, and all unsolicited (sans cartes de visites)."

When her sister Sarah came over from Paris, she wrote:—

Lord William Lennox, in his Recollections, describes the reception given by the young Queen to Rachel, to whom the Duchess of Kent presented her:—

One of the greatest dramatic triumphs I ever witnessed was achieved by Mademoiselle Rachel. Upon one occasion, when I had the honour of receiving a command to dine at Windsor Castle, during the lifetime of the Prince Consort, she was engaged to go through the principal scenes from Marie Stuart, Orestes, and Les Horaces, supported by two or three of the French Company then acting in London. There were no "accessories." no stage, no scenery, no costumes. The performance took place in an alcove in the large drawing-room, where nothing could have riveted the attention of the audience but the consummate skill of the artiste, who so thoroughly identified herself with