CHAPTER V

1836

At Ramsgate — Back to Kensington — Change of rooms — Marriage of the Queen of Portugal — A dinner party — The theatre — Kemble and Macready — Helen Faucit — Charles Mathews — Visit to Windsor — State ball — Princes Ferdinand and Augustus — King Leopold’s _Directions_ — Visit of Ernest and Albert of Saxe-Coburg — Their characteristics and charms — Seventeenth birthday — The British Gallery — The Victoria Asylum — Lablache — At Claremont — Portuguese revolution — Events in Lisbon — King Leopold and Belgium — Death of Malibran — At Ramsgate — Books read — A dinner party — Louis Napoleon at Strasburg — A stormy journey — Rochester — Back to Kensington — Claremont — A gipsy camp 140–182