Wellington (2003)
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No sooner was he dead than there was a brisk traffic in the morbid keepsakes so beloved of the Victorians. Lady Douro was given the false teeth he was wearing when he died, and a manservant, sending a lock of hair to a gentleman in Devon, regretted that there was very little but demand had been so great. Queen Victoria herself had a lock, soon to be enclosed in a gold bracelet, snipped from the duke’s head by his valet Kendall moments before the coffin-lid was soldered down over the embalmed bod...y. Local inhabitants filed past it on 9–10 November, 9,000 of them, queuing in a long silent line on the beach.
On 14 November, the duke was taken by train to London, and reached Chelsea Hospital at 3.00 on the morning of the 15th, where he lay in state in the black-draped Great Hall – once scene of the Cintra enquiry, and now the pensioners’ dining-hall. His sons were at first appalled by a display ‘devoid of taste and feeling’, which they knew he had not wanted, but were soon persuaded of the wisdom of having ‘placed ourselves at the disposition of the country’.2 The young queen was the first visitor, but ‘so deeply was she affected that she never got beyond the centre of the hall, where her feelings quite overcame her, and whence she was led, weeping bitterly, to her carriage’.3 Thousands upon thousands followed her, and several were killed in the crush, their bodies passed from hand to hand over the heads of the living.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
No sooner was he dead than there was a brisk traffic in the morbid keepsakes so beloved of the Victorians. Lady Douro was given the false teeth he was wearing when he died, and a manservant, sending a lock of hair to a gentleman in Devon, regretted that there was very little but demand had been so great. Queen Victoria herself had a lock, soon to be enclosed in a gold bracelet, snipped from the duke’s head by his valet Kendall moments before the coffin-lid was soldered down over the embalmed bod...y. Local inhabitants filed past it on 9–10 November, 9,000 of them, queuing in a long silent line on the beach.
On 14 November, the duke was taken by train to London, and reached Chelsea Hospital at 3.00 on the morning of the 15th, where he lay in state in the black-draped Great Hall – once scene of the Cintra enquiry, and now the pensioners’ dining-hall. His sons were at first appalled by a display ‘devoid of taste and feeling’, which they knew he had not wanted, but were soon persuaded of the wisdom of having ‘placed ourselves at the disposition of the country’.2 The young queen was the first visitor, but ‘so deeply was she affected that she never got beyond the centre of the hall, where her feelings quite overcame her, and whence she was led, weeping bitterly, to her carriage’.3 Thousands upon thousands followed her, and several were killed in the crush, their bodies passed from hand to hand over the heads of the living.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Richard Holmes to read onlineMoreLess
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