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Tic Queen held a Court at Buckingham Palace on Monday. Count Col- leredo had an audience to present his credentials as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the Emperor of Austria. The Royal Family left town on Monday afternoon, for Windsor during the Ascot week.
The Queen and Prince Albert, with their suite, wont to the races on Tuesday, in a cortege of eight carriages, attended by a cloud of scarlet- liveried outriders. The Duke and Dutehess de Montpensier were in her Majesty's carriage. Unfortunately, the weather was so bad that the car- riages wore kept closed during most of the day. In the evening her Majesty gave a grand dinner.
On Wednesday, the Duke and Duchess of Montpensier, and other guests, left the Castle ; and the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary arrived.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert were present at Ascot races again on Thursday ; when the weather was even sadder than on Tuesday,—so wretched, indeed, that it was deemed an unexpected kindness to the few loyal spectators who went to see the Queen, that she bravely made her appearance.
The day was closed again by a grand dinner, and an evening party. Among the numerous guests at the Castle this week, have been the Marquis and Marchioness of Chandos, the Earl and Countess of Malmes- bury, Lord Stanley, and Lord John Manners,
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