14 October 1854: During the Crimean War, Queen Victoria visits the docks at Hull, and comparisons are made with the capital of our Turkish ally
The Royal Yacht Fairy, with Queen Victoria on board, making her way through the fleet at Spithead in 1852. (Ouless 1852).
George Howard. 1864. Extracts from Journals Kept by George Howard, Earl of Carlisle. Ed. Caroline Lascelles. London: Swift and Co. Get it:
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The Queen embarked on the Fairy, and made a water progress through the Docks; this was very animated; a great contrast to the Sultan’s water progresses in all respects; favourable as regards the acclamations of the free and intelligent thousands that lined every wharf, and thronged on all the steamboats; unfavourably, I am bound to add, as regards the comparison of dingy Hull with gleaming Stamboul; and the murky Humber with the sapphire Bosphorus.
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Abbreviations:
- ER: East Riding
- GM: Greater Manchester
- NR: North Riding
- NY: North Yorkshire
- SY: South Yorkshire
- WR: West Riding
- WY: West Yorkshire
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Had Howard ever visited Constantinople?
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The Queen embarked on the Fairy, and made a water progress through the Docks; this was very animated; a great contrast to the Sultan’s water progresses in all respects; favourable as regards the acclamations of the free and intelligent thousands that lined every wharf, and thronged on all the steamboats; unfavourably, I am bound to add, as regards the comparison of dingy Hull with gleaming Stamboul; and the murky Humber with the sapphire Bosphorus.
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