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Reign of Queen Victoria, 1 837-1 901 



Charge d' Affaires), and Admiral de Luthe ; the sixth — Lady 

 Caroline Leveson Gower, the Maids-of-Honoar-in-Waiting, 

 and the Marquis of Abercorn ; the seventh — Marquis of 

 Normanby, Viscount Palmerston, Marquis Provenzalia, and 

 the Count de Beust ; the eighth — Lady Augusta Bruce, 

 Le Caron Serge Friedericks, Baron Zigesar, and the Lord- 

 in-Waiting, Lord Camoys ; and the ninth — Le Conseiller 

 d'Etat Haurowitz, Lord George Lennox, and the Groom-in- 

 Waiting, Major the Hon. Alexander Hood, Lord Alfred 

 Paget (Clerk Marshal), Equerry-in-Waiting. Colonel the 

 Hon. Charles Grey (in Wailing on the Grand Duke Con- 

 stantine) and Captain the Hon, A. H. Gordon (Equerry- 

 in-Waiting on Prince Albert) were on horseback. On 

 entering the Royal Stand, and presenting herself at the 

 window. Her Majesty was hailed with loud cheers. She 

 was in high spirits, and participated in the amusements of 

 the day, not omitting the sweepstakes. The great prizes 

 were exhibited : the Queen's Vase in front of the Stewards' 

 Stand, the Emperor's Cup and the Hunt Cup in the saloon 

 of the Grand Stand. Ribbons and Orders were as rife as 

 on a Levee day ; Fashion, whose most becoming mode is 

 always in the present tense, never attired her high-priestesses 

 more bewitchingly, and the prevailing custom of carrying 

 large bouquets added not a little to the gorgeousness of 

 the scene. 



The Ascot Stakes— a very rich affair — brought out a 

 considerable field ; Woodpigeon was first by a neck, with 

 odds 15 to I against him. The race for the Emperor's 

 Plate commanded seven champions. The chief interest 

 centred in Mr. John Day's Hero and Sir J. Hawley's 

 Mendicant, at 6 to 4 each, and Lord Waterford's Wolfdog 



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