MARLBOROUGH HOUSE, LONDON 



Princess Charlotte, lived here from 1817 until 

 he accepted the Throne of Belgium in 1831. 

 It finally reverted to the Government in 1835, 

 and was afterwards occupied by the Queen 

 Dowager Adelaide. It then became a Picture 

 Gallery and Library under the department of 

 Science and Art, and here the Vernon collection 

 and the English pictures of the National Gallery 

 were exhibited until they were removed to 

 South Kensington Museum. George IV's 

 scheme of uniting by a long gallery Carlton 

 Palace, St. James's Palace, and Marlborough 

 House was never carried out. In 1850 the 

 house was granted to the Prince of Wales, be- 

 coming the official residence of the Heir Ap- 

 parent till 1910. It was here that the Prince 

 of Wales in 1863 brought his fair young bride. 

 At the first moment she appeared she won all 

 hearts, Queen Victoria calling her " The Fairy." 

 This ascendancy only increased with time, thanks 

 to her exquisite tact, a quality also possessed by 

 her husband in the highest degree. The late 

 Empress Frederick, whose enthusiastic letters, 

 full of the charms of Princess Alexandra, led to 

 the first meeting of the youthful pair, said of her, 



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