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Excerpt from When All Men Starve: Showing How England Hazarded Her Naval Supremacy, and the Horrors Which Followed the Interruption of Her Food Supply
The Queen are said to have adorned the white washed walls crude portraits, representing her Majesty surrounded by her perplexingly numerous children and grandchildren, garish prints which usually bore but slight resemblance to the royal personages depicted. In certain parts of the kingdom too, as at Windsor, the Isle of Wight, Balmoral, the august Sovereign had even been seen in the flesh by gaping rustics for at these places Queen Victoria was provided with magnificent castles and palaces and here she chiefly lived, preferring the bracing air of Balmoral, or the sea breezes of Osborne to the murky, smoke-stained atmosphere in which some odd millions of her subjects toiled, moiled, sweated, shivered and ran the whole gamut of squalid urban life. Earlier in the reign, London shopkeepers had sullenly resented the closing of Buckingham Palace, the pre ference shown by the Queen for country air; but to the working classes this was a matter of no consequence, and in the Year of Loyalty even the tradesmen forgot their old grievance and shouted God save the Queen as lustily as the very courtiers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
