I am in a great hurry, and therefore have only time to write to you a line to tell you, first, that on the 15th I wrote to all the Royal Family announcing the event to them, and that they answered all very kindly and civilly; the Duchess of Cambridge and Augusta, with the Duke and George, came over on purpose to congratulate me yesterday; secondly, that the marriage is to be _publicly announced_ in an Open Council on the 23rd, at Buckingham Palace, where I am going to-morrow.

I return here _after_ the Council on the 23rd.

I am so happy to think I need not then conceal my feelings any longer.

I have also written to the King of Hanover and the Landgravine,[65] and to all our relations abroad.

I hope, dear Uncle, you will not have _ill-treated_ my dearest Albert! I am very anxious to hear from him from Wiesbaden.