I came after dinner to hear the band play in the Conservatory, which is still standing, and which was lit up by coloured lamps--the King, Royal Family, etc., sitting in a corner of the large saloon, which still stands.
[Footnote 2: The Princess Feodore of Leiningen, afterwards Princess of Hohenlohe, Queen Victoria's half-sister.] "On the second visit (I _think_) the following year, also in summer, there was a great encampment of tents (the same which were used at the Camp at Chobham in '53, and some single ones at the Breakfasts at Buckingham Palace in '68-9), and which were quite like a house, made into different compartments.

It rained dreadfully on this occasion, I well remember.

The King and party dined there, Prince and Princess Lieven, the Russian Ambassador and Ambassadress were there.
"I also remember going to see Aunt Augusta at Frogmore, where she lived always in the summer.
"We lived in a very simple, plain manner; breakfast was at half-past eight, luncheon at half-past one, dinner at seven--to which I came generally (when it was no regular large dinner party)--eating my bread and milk out of a small silver basin.

Tea was only allowed as a great treat in later years.
[Pageheading: DUCHESS OF SAXE-COBURG-SAALFELD] "In 1826 (I think) my dear Grandmother, the Dowager Duchess of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, came to Claremont, in the summer.

Mamma and my sister went on part of the way to meet her, and Uncle Leopold I think had been to fetch her as far as Dover.