 ... Amongst the duties which made her life, as Lord Melbourne remarked, rather an unnatural one for a young person, was that of reviewing her troops. By general consent she looked her best on these occasions, in her Windsor uniform habit and cap, and...  The Quarterly Review - Pagina 196geredigeerd door - 1913Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Victoria (Queen of Great Britain) - 1912 - 538 pagina’s
...skirmished a good deal, and near us, and Leopold never moved. The whole went off beautifully ; and I felt for the first time like a man, as if I could fight myself at the head of my Troops. We rode back to the Castle at £ p. 4, and I mounted Barbara and rode... | |
 | Victoria (Queen of Great Britain) - 1912 - 478 pagina’s
...skirmished a good deal, and near us, and Leopold never moved. The whole went off beautifully ; and I felt for the first time like a man, as if I could fight myself at the head of my Troops. We rode back to the Castle at \ p. 4, and I mounted Barbara and rode... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1913 - 620 pagina’s
...occasions, in her Windsor uniform habit and cap, and mounted upon a white horse. With her uniform she put on a new emotion. ' I felt for the first time like a...with whatever outbreak of feeling afterwards, the Queen at this time in her interviews with Ministers was ' very much collected, civil and high.' People... | |
 | 1913 - 874 pagina’s
...occa•ions, in her Windsor uniform habit and cap, and mounted upon a white borse. With her uniform she put on a new emotion. "I felt for the first time like a man,...with whatever outbreak of feeling afterwards, the Queen at this time In her interviews with Ministers was "very much collected, civil and high." People... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1913 - 626 pagina’s
...occasions, in her Windsor uniform habit and cap, and mounted upon a white horse. With her uniform she put on a new emotion. ' I felt for the first time like a...with whatever outbreak of feeling afterwards, the Queen at this time in her interviews with Ministers was ' very much collected, civil and high.' People... | |
 | Lynne Vallone - 2001 - 288 pagina’s
...year she exclaimed to her journal after reviewing the troops: 'The whole went off beautifully; and I felt for the first time like a man, as if I could fight myself at the head of my Troops.'"'" The young Queen was in her glory, playing the part of the martial... | |
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