IA R.

[Footnote 97: The house occupied by the Duc de Bordeaux.]

[Footnote 98: Thomas, Lord Lynedoch, had died the previous
day, aged ninety-five. He highly distinguished himself in
the Peninsula and in Holland, and received the thanks of
Parliament, and a Peerage in 1814.]

[Footnote 99: He died in July 1845.]

[Pageheading: THE SPANISH MARRIAGE]

_Queen Victoria to the Earl of Aberdeen._

WINDSOR CASTLE, _28th December 1843._

The Queen has been much amused to see by Sir Robert Gordon's despatch
of the 15th, the extreme fright of Prince Metternich at the proposed
marriage of Queen Isabel with Count Trapani,[100] but she regrets
that Sir Robert tried to make excuses for the conduct we have pursued,
which the Queen thinks requires no apology.

[Footnote 100: See _ante_, p. 487, note 54. (this Ch., above)]

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Transcriber's Note:

This is the first Volume of three. The index is in Volume 3.
It is suggested that all three Volumes be downloaded to the same folder.

[ae] and [oe] are used for the diphthongs/ligatures in (mostly) French
words. (e.g. c[oe]ur, heart; s[oe]ur, sister; ch[oe]ur, choir, chorus;
v[oe]ux, wishes.)

Some hyphenation is inconsistent and has been retained.

There are a number of 'period' spellings, which I have retained
(e.g. bord, controuled, uncontrouled, Controul, woud, etc.).

The original pageheadings have been retained, moving them to appropriate
positions, to the beginning of letters and text to which they refer,
so as not to interrupt the flow of the text. Thus, a long letter may
be prefaced by two, or even three pageheadings.

Likewise, footnotes have been moved to the end of the appropriate letter,
or the appropriate paragraph, in the case of longer pieces of text.

Initial letters are spaced as in the original, i.e., personal initials:
spaced; academic initials: unspaced.

There are many footnotes which refer to earlier or later pages.
e.g.:
[Footnote 53: Of the Crown jewels; _ante_, p. 439.
(Ch. XI, 'Crown Jewels')]
For clarification, I have added (Ch. and 'Pageheading') or (Ch. and date).

Errata and [sic]:

Page 12: '... were desired to take me a drive to amuse me.' [sic]

Page 14: removed extraneou