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Title: Queen Victoria, her grand life and glorious reign; a complete story of the career of the marvelous queen and empress, and a life of the new king, Edward VII, with a brief history of England
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Coulter, John, ed Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901 Cooper, John A. (John Alexander), b. 1868, joint ed
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Publisher: (Chicago, H. Neil)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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LAST ILLNESS OF THE QUEEN. 101 apparently surmised in some quarters that his journey to Osborne had somerelation to that imaginary claim. The Emperor never paid any attention tothe ridiculous story, and its authorship was never known. The Kaisers visit tO Osborne House caused profound gratification, asdemonstrating his personal good-will and making it plain to the hostile powersthat Great Britain was not isolated at that grave juncture of her fortunes. An apprehension unquestionably existed in court and diplomatic circlesthat the death of the Queen, who was held in such a universal reverence andesteem, and whose moral weight for European peace was incalculable, mightserve the purposes of these powers led by France, whose aim was a coalitionagainst England. The Kaisers presence, which so much impressed continen-tal feeling, was really an act of characteristic impulsiveness, and, like most ofhis impulses, good in the main. There was an all-pervading sense of gloom throughout London, Tho

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