The Duchess of Kent,
the Queen's mother, died this morning, in her seventy-fifth year. Away go all
further drawing-rooms, levées, and other palatial gayeties for this season. As
possibly we shall not have an opportunity to see Queen Victoria again before
quitting for home, I am somewhat pleased that we met her in her open carriage
yesterday afternoon in Hyde Park and received her kind smile and bow. The
Duchess was sister of the present King of Belgium, and, I believe, aunt of the
Queen of Portugal; so, three Royal Courts are in deep mourning.
SOURCE: George
Mifflin Dallas, Diary of George Mifflin Dallas, While United States
Minister to Russia 1837 to 1839, and to England 1856 to 1861, Volume 3, p.
441
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