She prefers the country life and Blenheim to the best that London can give her, and this taste is to a great measure shared by many of our American peeresses and guests.
The Peers and Peeresses who had crowned themselves simultaneously with the coronation of the Queen, removed their crowns when she laid aside hers.
The return of the procession, though the line was broken, had the special attraction that the Queen wore her crown, and the Peers and Peeresses their coronets.
The acclamation when the crown was put on her head was very animating; and in the midst of it, in an instant of time, the Peeresses were all coroneted--all but the fair creature already described.
Not only is the royal closet still in readiness furnished with its chairs of State, there are other closets or small galleries for the Household, peeresses and their daughters, &c.
Peeresses in their own right, the widows of Peers, and the wives of living Peers, including the wives of Irish Peers who have seats in the House of Commons.
With respect to such Peeresses as have remarried under the rank of the Peerage, they, according to former precedent, are not considered as entitled to such summons.
Give her but the knack of a minuet, and she would show young peeresseshow to move like queens, or like a swan gliding on the current.
She calls all the American duchesses by their first names, and the other United States peeresses that she didn't play with in infancy, she must have brought up by hand.
But it is quite clear, from what we have stated, that this is not because peeresses are barren.
They have invited ten peeresses to walk: all somehow or other dashed with blood-royal, and rather than not have King James's daughter attended by princesses, they have fished out two or three countesses descended from his competitor Monmouth.
I fancy it was no bad scene, the avarice and jealousy of their peeresses on their return.
Queen Victoria was still a great power in Society and kept Peeresses in order.
The peers and peeresses took their places in the Abbey, and then the procession which was to walk up the aisle was formed.
Now, the arrangements for the coronation were very difficult to make, for all the peers and peeresses had to have seats in the Abbey given to them, and there were so many that it was difficult for them all to get in.
Two-thirds of the peers with the peeresses and their daughters were present, and the whole of the vast hall was crowded to excess.
On the last occasion many of the peers and peeresses of the highest rank were compelled thus to wait for nearly three hours before their carriages could reach the palace-gates.
Peeresses cannot claim the right to be present, but are allowed to attend in accordance with a privilege of long standing, which adds much to the beauty of the ceremony.
Now, it is not uncommon to see an achievement displayed in this manner, for there have been several instances in recent years of peeresses in their own right who have married peers.
No females (except Peeresses in their own right) are entitled to supporters, as the representation of families is only in the male line.
These are to give notice to all Peeresses who attend at the Coronation of Their Majesties, that the robes or mantles appertaining to their respective ranks are to be worn over the usual full Court dress.
Peeresses at the Coronation of Their Most Sacred Majesties King Edward the Seventh and Queen Alexandra.
We have seen that this massed array of peeresses is sown thick with diamonds, and we also see that it is a marvellous spectacle--but now we are about to be astonished in earnest.
By this time the peeresses are flowing in in a glittering stream, and the satin-clad officials are flitting and glinting everywhere, seating them and making them comfortable.
The sight was splendid; the bank of Peeresses quite beautiful all in their robes, and the Peers on the other side.
The number of peers and peeresses present was not very great; some of the latter, with no excuse in the world, appeared in Lord Lincoln's gallery, and even walked about the hall indecently in the intervals of the procession.
The habit of the peers is unbecoming to the last degree; but the peeresses made amends for all defects.
The Duchess of Ancaster marched alone after the Queen with much majesty; and there were two new Scotch peeresses that pleased every body, Lady Sutherland and Lady Dunmore.
Some of the peeresses were dressed overnight, slept in armchairs, and were waked if they tumbled their heads.
By the way, the number of peeressesthat propose to excuse themselves makes great noise; especially as so many are breeding, or trying to breed, by commoners, that they cannot walk.
Lady Falmouth was not there on which George Selwyn said, "that those peeresseswho were most used to walk, did not.
As it would seem by a miracle, the bitter prejudices of that old lady had given way, and through the broad doors of Houghton Castle, she was invited to take her place among the peeresses of the land.
All these grand personages and the Peers and Peeresses were so placed as to have a perfect view of the part of the minster in which the coronation took place-called, in the programme, "the Theatre.
These heraldic crowns must not be confounded with the coronets, as they are now called, worn of different patterns by peers and peeresses according to their degree; some reference to these will be made later.
At ten the procession went to chapel, preceded by unmarried daughters of peers, and peeresses in plenty.
The Duchess of Ancaster [Mistress of the Robes] marched alone after the Queen with much majesty; and there were two new Scotch peeresses that pleased everybody, Lady Sutherland and Lady Dunmore.
Some of the peeresseswere so fond of their robes, that they graciously exhibited themselves for a whole day before to all the company their servants could invite to see them.
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