MARLBOROUGH HOUSE, LONDON 



to pay public homage to the qualities of the 

 Princess as wife and mother. She dined with 

 her son at Marlborough House, and gave a great 

 ball at Buckingham Palace. Many brilliant 

 functions took place here, including the reception, 

 in 1889, of the Shah of Persia. 



But it is, perhaps, by making Marlborough 

 House her principal home, after her short but 

 brilliant reign at Buckingham Palace, that our 

 beloved Queen Mother has endeared it to every 

 British heart. Its beautiful rooms are full of 

 the memories of a great career. Luke Fildes' 

 portrait of King Edward, Benjamin Constant's 

 sketch for the picture of Queen Victoria ; the 

 Coronation by a Danish artist, Professor Tuxen ; 

 Westminster Abbey on the evening of the 

 Queen's funeral ; portraits of Queen Louise and 

 King Christian of Denmark, with the whole of 

 their family, at Fredensborg Castle ; a charming 

 marble statuette by Boehm of the Queen of 

 Norway as a child, who was christened in the 

 great drawing-room; beautiful miniatures, flowers 

 everywhere, and over all the ineffable charm of 

 the queenly lady whose big heart has felt for 

 all the joys and sorrows of the nation, who, in 



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