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THE QUEEN has again returned to Osborne after her trip to the Channel Islands. Her Majesty and Prince Consort, with Prince Alfred, Prince Arthur, Princess Alice, and Princess Helena, visited St. Heliers, Jersey, on Saturday morning, where her Majesty received an address from the bailiff, drove through the town to the Victoria College, and afterwards to the breakwater at St. Catherines. On Sunday morning the Royal family went to St. Pierre, Guernsey, paid a visit to the Lieutenant-Governor and to the fort. In the evening they proceeded to Alderney, returning to Osborne on Monday. Sir G. C. Lewis, her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Home Department, accompanied them. Monday and Tuesday again saw her Majesty taking her accustomed drives at Osborne ; and on Wednesday, being the birthday of the Duchess of Kent, the annual dinner and fête to the seamen and marines of the Royal yachts, and other local public servants, were given. Her Majesty stayed in tho marquee to witness the rustic games.
The Earl of St. Germans, the Princess Gauromma of Coorg, Colonel and Lady Catherine V. Harcourt, Lady Augusta Bruce, Princess Hohenlohe, Sir George Cowper, Earl Granville, and the Right Honorable J. Milner Gibson have visited her Majesty during the week.
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