Excerpt from The Romance of Royalty, Vol. 2 The Emperor Formally Announces his Marriage - His Appeal to Popularity - The Wedding Present of the Municipal Council -how the Bride Disposed of it - The Civil and Religious Marriage - An Ominous Incident - Popularity of the New Reign - Framing Rules for the Court - An Astrologer's Pre diction - The Emperor has a Quiet Talk with Lord Malmes bury - His Lordship's Opinion of the Imperial Court Napoleon's Friendship for England - The Crimean War The Emperor's Letter to the Czar - Excitement in England Queen Victoria Sees the English Squadron Sail from Spit head - Her Majesty's Opinion on a Day of Humiliation Friendly Feelings between England and F rance - Napoleon's Letter to Prince Albert, who Goes to Boulogne - His Im pressions of the Emperor and the Emperor's Impressions of him - His Majesty Proposes to Take Command of the Armies in Russia - Objections of the French and English People Lord Clarendon is Despatched to Reason with the Emperor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.