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 CONTENTS VII.

CHAPTER LONDON AND SANDRINGHAM

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PAGK

His

Some Early Speeches of the Prince of Wales

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in the Volunteer Movement At the Royal Literary Fund Banquet The " " " William Watson's of Society A Genius for Saying the Right Thing

Flowers

Sketch

Character

FAMILY AFFAIRS

SOME Birth of Prince Albert Victor at Buckingham

Palace

An Unexpected Event Queen Victoria's Gift

Birth of Prince George

Sweden

A Nurse of High Degree

The Christening

The Prince and Princess Visit Denmark and

The Family in

Illness of the Princess of Wales

1869

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Dean Stanley at Sandringham a Sincere

Churchman

Death of Prince Alexander

Sunday at Sandringham

Visit to Russia

of the Duke of Edinburgh

Marriage

Princess Louise and the Marquis of Lorne Married

Albert Hall Opened

Bright

More

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VIII.

CHAPTER

Scene

" Hodge's " Ultimatum

A Model Estate at Sandringham

An Emigration Scheme

Combine

Visit to the Norwich Musical Festival Interest

Prince

GLIMPSE

A FURTHER



Joseph Arch and his Work

The Plight of the Agricultural Labourer The Labourers

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Strong Clerical Feeling

The

An Imposing

The Prince of Wales and John

Royal Weddings

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IX.

CHAPTER

PRINCE AND "REPUBLICAN" A Royal Visit to Birmingham Mr. Chamberlain

Camberwell

Activities

Mr.

A

Joseph Chamberlain's

The Old Home

A Rising Young Man

at Birmingham

of Republicanism

Suspicion

Ancestry

Some

Comparisons

at

His Early Public

Speculation

is Rife

Mr. John Morley as an Editor Mr. Chamberlain is made Mayor of Birmingham The Municipal Buildings Opened The Prince of Wales's Speech Mr. Chamberlain Dissipates Suspicion

The Times on the Event.

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CHAPTER

X.

Italy

Destruction

and Venetia

of the Bund

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EUROPEAN ADJUSTMENTS

The Austro-Prussian Situation in the 'Sixties Fears

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Bismarckian Schemes

Alliance and War

Louis Napoleon

The Battle of Sadowa

French Hopes

Moves

and

for Mediation

Prince Frederick Charles in Action