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11 Influenced by a similar feeling so predominant in His Majesty's Character, and so remarkably exemplified in the closing years of his life, the King expressed his special desire that the Queen should attend the races at Ascot - prefering rather to dispense with the great comfort of Her Majesty's society than that the public should experience any Disappointment from the absence of the Royal Family. However little in accordance with the painful state of her own anxious feelings such a scene might be, the Queen did not hesitate to acquiese in the Kings wishes. Her Majesty, therefore drove to the course, but returned at the end of two hours to Windsor Castle
