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pily. One of her first acts was to put an
end to Court extravagence and Court pro-
fligacy. During her first year’s rule she
paid her father’s debts and during the
second year her mother’s, and this without
incurring any debts herself or asking Par-
liament for any addition to her income.
Her business tact, honesty and frugality
won her friends everywhere and gave her
the confidence of all England.

Her coronation occurred June 28th, 1838,
and was an event of great splendor and re-

joicing throughout the kingdom. The cor-

 

onation took place in Westminster Abbey.
The Queen was escorted up the nave by
two Bishops, eight daughters of English
Dukes bearing her train and fifty ladies of
rank in her household following. As the
Archbishop of Canterbury presented her
as the ‘Queen of the realm,’ the old build-
ing shook with cries of ‘God save Queen
Victoria.” At the close of the ceremony
the Archbishop

Crown upon her head, and at the same in-

reverently placed the

stant the lords and ladies present donned

their coronets, the flashing jewels adding

 

 

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