Note 395 — INTRODUCTORY NOTE TO CHAPTER VIII

At the opening of the Queen’s first Parliament in 1837 Lord Leveson [afterwards Lord Granville and Foreign Secretary] had moved in the House of Commons the address in reply to her speech, looking, wrote Disraeli, himself also a new member, “like a child.” Lord Leveson was twenty-two years old, and the Queen had met him a few years earlier at Christ Church. See ante, p. 60. His mother, Lady Granville, was Henrietta, daughter of the fifth Duke of Devonshire.