OF THE

QUEENS OF GREAT BRITAIN.

FROM

THE NORMAN CONQUEST TO THE REIGN OF VICTORIA.

OR,

ROYAL BOOK OF BEAUTY.

EDITED

BY MARY HOWITT.

ILLUSTRATED BY

TWENTY-EIGHT HIGHLY FINISHED PORTRAITS ON STEEL.

LONDON :
HENRY G. BOHN, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN.

1856.

ADVERTISEMENT.

The materials for this Volume, together with the extremely beautiful

Portraits which it contains, having come into the hands of the

Publisher, he has availed himself of the services of its present accom

plished Editor, to revise, correct, and condense them, as well as to

complete the series by the addition of new Memoirs. No pains have

been spared, to render it every way worthy of its national and

highly interesting contents; and he feels that he may present it

with confidence as one of the most perfect histories of our QUEENS

which it is possible to comprise in a single volume.