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21 May 1863 — Exeter House, Roehampton | |
Thursday. 21st May [1863]. Was very late in the morng and only down in time for riding at 12½. Sat with Monty while he breakfasted and then rode with him & Schr as far as Rotten Row where Montie left us. We rode about for 2 hours, saw quantities of our friends and came in to lunch at 2 when I dressed and went to 21 Chesham Place to join their & the Gordons party to the Crystal Palace but found that Lady Huntly had put it off on account of the cold. I therefore simply went out shopping with Felicia, Milord & little Mary B. and at 5 we called upon Lady Mary Arkwright where we also found Fanny & Mr Arthur Wigram. After a cup of tea there we went to drive in the Park & just as we got there the Princess of Wales drove by looking very pretty & pale. She was dressed in a white bonnet with a pink flower & had on an Indian shawl. I believe she was driving with the Princess Louis. At 6 we returned to Chesham Place and I did Felicia’s hair for the Opera and after a hasty dinner she drove me home on her way to the O. I then dressed & set out with the M. & Connie to Mrs Hy Bruce’s drum wh was very dull but I had an amusing chat with Dicky Doyle wh was most amusing and told me a ridiculous story about poor Mrs Cameron who when at Freshwater in the I. of Wight wanted very much to take her piano to Tennyson’s close by. She therefore employed 3 men to carry the piano & on the road bid them to rest and she sitting down (it was the high road) began to play some Beethoven & some one who passed discovered her in this curious predicament. To bed at 1– | |
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