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James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen 2 0 Browse Search
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James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen, Victoria, Queen of England. (search)
e service. There was really a kind of sublimity in the plainness and directness of the language employed:-- Albert, wilt thou have this woman to be thy wedded wife? and Victoria, wilt thou have Albert to be thy wedded husband? and Who giveth this woman to be married to this man? To this last question the Duke of Sussex replied by taking the queen's hand and saying, I do. Perhaps some in the assembly may have smiled when the Queen of England promised to obey this younger son of a German Duke, and when he said, With all my worldly goods I thee endow. The queen tells us, however, that she pronounced the word obey with a deliberate intent to keep her vow, and that she kept it. There was, of course, the wedding breakfast at Buckingham Palace, which was attended by the royal family, the ministry, the maids of honor, and other personal attendants of the queen and prince. Soon after seven o'clock in the evening, the royal chariot dashed into Windsor with its escort of life-guar