CHAPTER VI

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THE MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCE OF WALES.

England in 1863--The Prince of Wales Summoned as a Peer of Parliament--His Introduction to the House of Lords--Cession of the Ionian Islands to Greece--Mr. Disraeli’s Policy--The Prince of Wales’s Income--The Dowry of the Princess--Approaching Marriage of the Prince of Wales--The Voyage of the “Sea-King’s Daughter”--Reception of the Princess Alexandra at Gravesend--Her Entry into London--The Scene in the City--The West End _en Fête_--Loyalty of Clubland--Accident to the Royal Party at Slough--The High Churchmen and the Queen--Objections to a Royal Marriage in Lent--The Dispensing Power of the Primate--A Visit to Frogmore--The Queen at the Prince of Wales’s Marriage--The

## Scene in St. George’s Chapel--The Wedding Presents--The Ceremony--The

Wedding Guests hustled by Roughs--Riots in Ireland--Illuminated London--Foreign Policy--The Polish Question--The Russian Rebuff to Lord Palmerston--Napoleon III. Proposes a Congress of Sovereigns--Lord Russell Condemns the Proposal--The Death-Knell of the Anglo-French Alliance--France and Mexico and the Archduke Maximilian 146

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