CHAPTER IV

1835

At St. Leonards — A shipwreck — Lessons — Back to Kensington — Death of the Duke of Leuchtenberg — Opera _Otello_ — Visit to Windsor — A concert — Grisi, Lablache, and Tamburini — Sixteenth birthday — Presents — Eton Montem — At the opera — Death of Countess Mensdorff — Confirmation — Ceremony at St. James’s — First Communion — At Tunbridge Wells — Races — Reading — Back to Kensington — Duc de Nemours — Journey to Bishopthorpe — Harcourt family — York Minster — At Canterbury — Ramsgate — The King and Queen of the Belgians 107–139