Note 28 — Chapter XVI · THE ILLNESS OF THE PRINCE OF WALES.

These were Mr. Peter Taylor, Professor Fawcett, and Sir Charles Dilke. The vote for it was 352, but half of the House was absent from the division which Mr. Taylor challenged. Mr. Taylor declared that the people were getting tired of the Monarchy. Sir Robert Peel suggested that if more money were granted to the Royal Family, it ought to go to the Prince of Wales, who was doing most of the Queen’s ceremonial duties. He had also the bad taste to sneer at the Queen’s alleged parsimony, and insinuated that she saved for her private purse the money voted to defray her State expenses.