At six that evening, Albert returned to her. Before she married, Victoria had regularly exercised on horseback, but soon after her marriage—and perhaps because of her pregnancy—she stopped, preferring to take her airings with her husband, in an open carriage. While in residence in London, the two regularly rode out in the late afternoons; their rides regularly reported in the Court Circular, published in every newspaper. Their rides were regular enough so that crowds outside the Palace gathered to cheer them. This evening was no exception: soon after Albert’s return, the two emerged, accompanied by their equerries, for their regular airing up Constitution Hill and in Hyde Park.
*1“Young England” happens to be the same name that young Benjamin Disraeli and his companions would choose for their quasi-feudalistic movement within the Tory party, two years after this. The correspondence is almost certainly a complete coincidence, unless one of the Tory Young Englanders recalled news accounts of Oxford’s society when formulating his own.
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