ROYAL BEAUTIES.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1315, 14 August 1886, Page 3

ROYAL BEAUTIES.

The Empress Engenie end Elizabeth of Austria, the Princess of Wales and Q leen Marguerite of Italy, were all famous beauties, and the two latter are still charming enough to merit the admiration of the world. But the fair Alexandra is beginning to look like the mother of a grown-up family, and it is ' whispered that her profuse tresses nre not the growth <f her own shapely head. None of her daughters, except, perhaps the youngest, the Princess Maud, give any promise of inheriting even a portion of her charms. The future Empress of Austria, the Princess Stephanie of Belgium, has a neat, graceful figure, hut a hopelessly plain face. The Queen of Spain !hn no claim whatever to good looks. Her predecessor, the luckless Mercedes, was a very pretty girl, but the Princess Christ'ne, the sister of Mercedes, who died on the eve of her betrothal to the yonng King 4’fonso, was a pos : t!ve fright. None of the Orleans princesses are pretty. The three surviving daughters of Queen Isabel's of Spain are all veiy plain, being thin, sallow, and angnlar. The Princess Thyra, Duchess of Cumberland, was homely enough to scare the toor young Prince Imperial into going to Zululand rather than make her an < ffjc of his hand, as M. Rouher and the Empress Eugenie had planned that ho should do. The Princess Louise of Wales has a heavy j*w and hanging under-lip, and looks hopelessly dull arid stupid. Altogether the present generation .f i royal young iad'es is sadly deficient in cumelinets