ABSTRACT
Ball at Hyde Park Barracks — Grand Decorations — The Prince of Wales, as Colonel of the Second Life Guards, Receives the Guests — Colonial Banquet at Guildhall — Builders of the British Empire — The Prince and King Make Speeches — The King Offends the Irish — The Consequences — Entertained by Lord Brassey at Normalhurst —Lunch with Prince of Wales at Sir Christopher Sykes’s — Dinner at Trinity House — General Grant’s Mistake — Places of Interest — Handsome Jewish Women — Dinner with Baroness Burdett-Coutts — The King Decorated — He Also Decorates the Queen and Prince of Wales — “Punch” and the King — Ball at Marlborough House — Lunch with the Duke and Duchess of Teck — The “Lion”Leaves England — The King and the British Government.
