_Everybody, they tell me, is very much pleased, and I wish you could have seen the crowds of people who cheered me loudly as I left the Palace for Windsor._ I am so happy to-day! oh, if only _you_ could be here! I wish that you were able to participate in all the kindness which is shown to me.

To-day I can only send you the Declaration.[68] _The description of the whole_ I will send after this....
Send me as soon as possible the report of the announcement at Coburg.
I wear your dear picture mornings and evenings, and wore it also at the meeting of the _Conseil._ [Footnote 67: A Special Meeting of the Privy Council was held on the 23rd November, to receive the Queen's intimation of her engagement.

The Queen wrote in her Journal:-- "I went in; the room was full, but I hardly knew who was there.

Lord M.I saw, looking at me with tears in his eyes, but he was not near me.

I then read my short Declaration.