CHAPTER VI

1837

Gipsies — M. Van de Weyer — Books read — Opera _I Puritani_ — Death of Lady de L’Isle — The Drawing-room — An address from Lincoln — Eighteenth birthday — Ball at St. James’s — Stockmar — The King’s illness and death — News of the Accession — The first Council — Lord Melbourne — The Proclamation — Official business — Visit to Windsor — Queen Adelaide — Addresses — Audiences — Household appointments — The King’s funeral — Conferring Orders — Leaving Kensington Palace — Settling into Buckingham Palace 183–212