"Know ye," ran the present Letters Patent, "that we have made ...
our most dear son, the Prince of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (Duke of Saxony, Duke of Cornwall ...) Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester ...

and him our said most dear son, ...

as has been accustomed, we do ennoble and invest with the said Principality and Earldom, by girding him with a sword, by putting a coronet on his head, and a gold ring on his finger, and also by delivering a gold rod into his hand, that he may preside there, and may direct and defend those parts...."] _Queen Victoria to the King of the Belgians._ WINDSOR CASTLE, _7th December 1841._ MY DEAREST UNCLE,--We arrived here _sains et saufs_ with our awfully large Nursery Establishment yesterday morning.

It was a nasty warm and very rainy day, but to-day is very bright, clear and dry, and we walked out early and felt like prisoners freed from some dungeon.

Many thanks for your kind letter of the 2nd, by which I grieve to see that you are not quite well.