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Tux Queen entertained various visitors early in the week, at Windsor. Among them were the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary ; Prince Gortchakoff, Baron Brunow, M. Van de Weyer, the Martinis of Lansdowne, the Marquis of Abercom, the Chevalier Bunsen, and General Count de Nostitz.
Prince Albert divided his out-door exercises between hunting and shooting with the Prince Hermann of Hohenlohe, the Duke of Brabant, the Count of Flanders, and Prince Leiningen. The Queen, Prince Albert, and the Royal children, left Windsor Castle on Wednesday, for Buckingham Palace.
Here her Majesty held a Court, for the reception of the foreign officers who came to England to attend the state funeral. They were headed by their respective Mihisters, and introduced by the Earl of Ma]mesbury, as follows— Baron de Brunow, the Russian Minister; Prince Michel Gortchakoff, Count de Benckendorf, Comte Suchtelen, M. Tchernitzky ; Comte de Lavrad ,io Porta. guese Minister; Marechal Duc de Terceira, Comte de Villa Real, Major Don Man. uel de Souza Coutinho ; Baron Bentinek, Netherlands Minister • Lieutenant. General Baron D'Omphal, Baron Guillaume Tindal, Capitaine Gevers, General Comte de Nostitz, lieutenant-General de Masson, General de Scbarenhorst, M. Nostitz ; Comte de Kielmansegge, Hanoverian Minister ; General Sir Hugh Halkett ; Colonel Poten Lieutenant-Colonel Baron Mahrenholz ; Lieutenant-Colonel West ; Captain Colin Halkett k Senor Istnriz, the Sp.:w- ish Minister ; Dec d'Osuna et de L'Infantada, Lieutenant-Colonel Gabriel de Torres, Colonel Augustin de Calvet y Lava ; Major-General de Ehrichsen, commanding the Brunswick Corps; and Colonel Bause.
On Thursday, the Queen and her children reverently surveyed the procession of the state funeral, from Buckingham Palace and St. James's; and Prince Albert attended the funeral in person. Soon after he came back from St. Paul's, the Queen the Prince, the children, and the whole of the Court, returned to Windsor Castle. The Duchess of Kent arrived in town on Wednesday, from Frogniere ; and returned on Thursday. The Duchess of Gloucester, who has been unwell for some time at Brighton, is reported to be greatly improved in health.
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