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Royal visitations and deaths mark London season
The Queen and Prince Leopold depart Windsor on the 19th for Osborne then Balmoral for two months. Frances Countess Waldegrave dies of pneumonia at fifty-eight, following Strawberry Hill invitations and social receptions. Royal duties include opening the Alexandra Orphanage at Hornsey Rise with 165 nurses and a £1,500 day’s tally. Irish farmers’ reception in Windsor is postponed.
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Princess Beatrice
Prince Leopold
Windsor
Osborne
Balmoral
Lord Beaconsfield
Windsor Castle
Kilburn
Salusbury Road
Prince of Wales
Royal Agricultural Society
Prince Consort
Lord Powerscourt
Ireland
Frances Countess Waldegrave
Lord Carlingford
Lady Waldegrave
Braham
Strawberry Hill
Holland House
Cambridge House
Duc d’Aumale
Prince and Princess of Wales
Duke of Cambridge
Duchess of Teck
Alexandra Orphanage
Hornsey Rise
Charity Commission
United States
Bradford
America
James Howard
Farmers’ Alliance
Exeter Hall
J. W. Barclay
M.P
Alliance
Dublin Corporation
E. D. Gray
Blantyre
Henry Duffy
Patrick Lynch
England
Wales
London
Messrs. Spiers and Pond
King’s Cross
Metropolitan
Great Northern