THE EIGHTH DUKE OF BEAUFORT 



her sixty-seventh year, she seems to have borne 

 herself bravely during the prolonged festivities and 

 to have danced at the weddinof. 



In an old painting of the time there is a spirited 

 representation of the queen's procession to the home 

 of the bride. To follow the quaint description 

 given : " The central figure in the foreground, carry- 

 ing a pair of gloves, is the bridegroom's father, the 

 fourth Earl of Worcester. The bridegroom is one 

 of the six knights carrying the queen's litter — the 

 hindmost on her left hand, or (with reverence be it 

 spoken) occupying the position which, if the knights 

 had been horses drawing a coach, would have been 

 that of the near wheeler — and immediately behind 

 him is his bride." 



By the death of her grandfather, who had sur- 

 vived her father by some years, the Lady Anne 

 became the head of the elder line of the house of 

 Russell, and it is through her the Somersets are en- 

 titled to quarter the Russell arms. The eldest son 

 of the marriage was Edward, known as Lord 

 Herbert and Earl of Glamorgfan during; the life of 

 his father, and who found the family honours barren 

 of even a livelihood for himself and family when he 

 succeeded to them in 1646. Both father and son 

 were loyally attached to the house of Stuart, and 

 though in the early days of the troubles between 

 Charles and his Parliament they seem for a time to 

 have been objects of suspicion to the Government, 

 the king turned to them with confidence when 



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