CHAPTER XI. 1839. DECLARATION OF THE MARRIAGE TO THE PRIVY COUNCIL -LIST OF PRIVY COUNCILLORS PRESENT-THE QUEEN'S JOURNAL PROCEEDINGS AT COBURG AND GOTHALETTER FROM PRINCE ERNEST TO THE QUEEN-PRELIMINARY ARRANGEMENTS. THE public declaration of the intended marriage had been necessarily delayed till it should have been officially communicated to the Privy Council; but on the 15th, the day after the departure of the Princes, the Queen mentions in the memorandum from which the account of her betrothal has been chiefly taken, that she wrote letters to the Queen Dowager and to the other members of the English Royal Family, announcing her intended marriage, and received kind answers from all. On the 20th November the Queen, accompanied by the Duchess of Kent, came up from |