The Queen and Princess of Wales

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 153, 5 June 1886, Page 3

The Queen and Princess of Wales

It is the correct thing at the moment we notice never to mention the Princess of Wales's appearance in public without gravely announcing that she looks " pale and thin." Often enough the expression is used when the writer has not set eyes on the Royal lady. But in many oases the remark is made v with the idea of preserving public credence in the reports of . her recent illness. As a matter of fact, the Princess is always "pale and thin." Her photographs make her appear fullerfaced than she actually is. . The much chronicled and commented-upon indisposition has been little better than a beautiful fiction; certainly it has never been of a nature to noticeably fi-ffect her looks. The truth is, as we pointed out when the Princess absented herself, from the opening of Parliament, that one of the periodical unpleasantnesses that invade Marlborough House, as they do less illustrious homes, has been the cause of Her Royal Highness' s not accompanying some of her distinguished relatives on recent. occasions. " A cola" was sufficient to explain her absence "both "koia the ceremony at Westminster and the conoert at the Albert Hall ; but a fresh excuse was needed to account fot her non-appearance at the Drawing Room last Thursday. go the Princess decided to pay the postponed i visit to the Duchess of Sutherland, and rushed off to Torquay^ thus relieving herself -of the duty that would have obliged her to call on the Queen at Buckingham Palace, and to attend the presentation ceremony afterwards. It is to be hoped we have heard the last of Her Jtoyal^Highness's distressing state of health and about her looking " pale and thin." , Such statements are silly . fabrications ..''that prove either the .j jwriter-s ignorance or his mendacity. — ■"^xdkange.