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Tan Court record is nearly a blank register. The Queen and Prince Al- bert, with the children and household, left Windsor Castle on Wednesday, for the ffsle of Wight. A new route from Windsor to Portsmouth was pur- sued: instead of driving seventeen miles to the :Farnborough station of the South-western Railway, the party drove to Slough, went thence by the Great Western Railway to Reading, and thence by the Reading and Basingstoke Junction line to the South-western Railway. The voyage from Portsmouth to Cowes harbour was unpleasant: the air was thick and heavy, and the sea very rough, so that the royal yacht did not steam out through the assembled fleet, but skirted the Gosport shore and the Solent till she crossed to Cowes. The Queen reached Osborne House about half-past one.
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