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Tree QIFEEN held a drawingroom at St. James's Palace on Saturday. The attendance was very large ; it is estimated at two thousand persons. In the evening, her Majesty and the Prince of Wales went to the opera at the Lyceum. Prince Albert dined with the officers of the Guards at the London Tavern, and afterwards joined the Queen at the Opera. On Monday, Prince Albert escorted the Princess Royal to the Prussian Legation, where the Princess stood sponsor to the infant daughter of the Count and Countess Bernstorff.

The Royal Family arrived at Windsor Castle, from Bucking,liam Palate, on Tuesday afternoon. A large circle of guests were invitedlo share in the festivities of Ascot week. Among them were Prince Frede

rick William of Prussia, the Duchess and Princess Mary of Cambridge, the Hereditary Prince of Saxe Meiningen, the Count and Countess de Persigny, Earl Granville, the Earl of Clarendon, Lord and Lady Palmerston, Earl Cowley, M. Fonld, and the Duke of Wellington. On Thursday, the Queen and her guests went to Ascot Races ; and there was a grand banquet in St. George's Hall in the evening. Yesterday, the Queen and Prince Albert, the Princess Royal, and Prince Frederick William of Prussia, walked in the Home Park, and afterwards called on the Duchess of Kent at Frogmore.