19 JANUARY 1867, Page 1
The Queen is to open Parliament herself,—" with the same
state," says the Times, "as last year." Does this mean that she will not read the Speech herself? We hope she may, for she reads much better than Lord Chelmsford. If the State robe reaches her lap this time, instead of coming almost up to her knees, it will be something. Like the marble prince in the story, the regal life may gradually creep up her till she is wholly Queen again.
