QUEEN VICTORIA AS A GIRL

Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 53, 25 November 1922, Page 17

QUEEN VICTORIA AS A GIRL

LADY GEORGIANA PEEL’S MEMORIES.

Lady Georgiana Poel, whose death was announced by ‘‘The Times” recently, as the daughter of the famous Prime Minister, ■ Lord John (afteßnards Earl) Russell, had kubwn intimately many of the great personages of the Victorian age. She remembered, as a little child, being taken into the dressing-room of Queen Victoria and being danced round the room by the young Queen, then only a little over twenty, with her hair streaming all over her shoulders. She treasured -several little things, one. a china doll dressed in Chinese clothes, given her by the late Queen, whose marriage slip could just remember. She remembered, too, as 1 a child of 11, going ovgr . to Ireland with her father to stay with the Lord Lieutenant, and the shout? of the crowd. “Repale! Repala! • She. went with her father to Vienna bn the. Mission of Peace after the Crimean war, and during his_term or office, while they lived at Pembroke -Lodge, given him by the Queen, and in Chesham Place, she met everyone of. note at that, time, including Dickens, Thackeray, Macaulay, Bright, Lord Brougham, Garibaldi. Mr. ana ' Mrs.. Gladstone, Longfellow, Tomiy- , son,-Melbourne, and■ Clarendon, Her ■ marriage to Archibald Peel,- son of General and Lady Alice Peel, and nephew of Sir Robert Peel, was a union oi Whig and Tory. After their marriage i they lived chiefly in the country and ■ brought up a large family of children, untib Mr. Peel’s death in 1910, when the King gave Lady Georgiana the Cardinal’s House in Hampton Court ■ ? Lady Georgiana was beloved by everyone who knew her for her.clever, witty talk, her kindness, her charm, and, above all, the courage wjth which .she all tn “Sts Of. life. She never Showed depression, but ,was always glad »ee her friends and interested m all they had to say. She was tho centre of a large and devoted family, both her own ™Fher step-children, .and for them Sd for manPcof her friends the blank ahe has left will never be filled.