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Tun event of the week at Court has been Prince Albert's birthday, which fell on Thursday. The band of the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards serenaded his window in the morning, and soon afterwards a Royal salute was fired in Bachelor's Acre ; the church-bells setting up a peal at the same time. At eleven o'clock, the Seventy-second High- leaders marched into the Home Park and formed in line beneath the wall of the New Terrace, after which they fired a feu de joie, and then paraded in front of Victoria Tower ; the Queen and Prince Albert viewing them from a window. At two o'clock the Queen and Prince Albert lunched in Adelaide Cottage, and heard another serenade per- formed by private musicians. Viscount Melbourne and a few of the nobility were admitted to the cottage after luncheon, to pay their re- spects to Prince Albert. Windsor was illuminated in the evening ; and in London the Theatres, the Club-houses, and several of the Royal tradesmen illuminated.
The Queen Dowager and Prince Ernest of Hesse Philippsthall vi- sited the Queen and Prince Albert on Monday ; her Majesty and the Prince receiving their visiters on alighting at the Palace. A luncheon was prepared for the Royal guests. On Tuesday, the Queen Dowager and Prince Ernest came to Marlborough House from Bushy. On Friday, Queen Adelaide and Prince Ernest were present at a regatta at Kew. Prince Ernest remained at Kew, on a visit to the Duke and Dutchess of Cambridge.
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