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Updated: May 28, 2025
I cannot but think that the principles on which we proposed to act with respect to the ladies of the bed-chamber, in the case of a queen-regnant, were the correct principles. The public will not believe that the queen holds no political conversation with those ladies, and that political influence is not exercised by them, particularly considering who those persons are who hold such situations.
Our fifth Queen-regnant, whose reign, longer than that of any of her four predecessors, is also happier than that of the greatest among them, can reckon among her subjects an even larger number of men eminent in all departments of knowledge, though perhaps we cannot boast one name quite equal to Newton in science, and though assuredly neither this nor any modern nation has yet a second imaginative writer whose throne may be set beside that of Shakespeare.
The post of almoner to the queen-regnant, Anne of Austria, was his reward.
The queen-consort not being a political person in the same light as a queen-regnant, I considered the construction of her majesty's household I considered who filled offices in it I considered all the circumstances attendant on the influence of the household, and the degree of confidence which it might be necessary for the government to repose in the members of it.
I considered well the nature of the formation of the royal household under the civil list act passed at the commencement of her majesty's reign. I considered well the difference between the household of a queen-consort and the household of a queen-regnant.
He appreciated, on the contrary, how entirely she had been a spoiled child of fortune all her life a queen-regnant, to whom all things must submit themselves and he felt how bitter must be this first sharp proof of her own impotence to secure the toy on which she had set her heart.
George is a man's man, then," retorted Miss Christie; "ye all admire him, I am sure." "And what are you, papa, dearest?" asked Janie, who had hold of his hand. "I'm my own man, my little queen-regnant," answered her father with a somewhat exultant laugh. "Ay, Mr. Mortimer, I'm just surprised at ye," quoth Miss Christie, shaking her head over these vainglorious words.
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