All her offspring were married; the number of her descendants rapidly increased; there were many marriages in the third generation; and no fewer than thirty-seven of her great-grandchildren were living at the time of her death.

A picture of the period displays the royal family collected together in one of the great rooms at Windsor--a crowded company of more than fifty persons, with the imperial matriarch in their midst.

Over them all she ruled with a most potent sway.

The small concerns of the youngest aroused her passionate interest; and the oldest she treated as if they were children still.

The Prince of Wales, in particular, stood in tremendous awe of his mother.