Queen Victoria's Ladies.
GET VERY LITTLE PENSIONS. London, May 11. The ladies of Queen Victoria's Court have learned, after anxious waiting, that they are to receive pensions, although minute ones. Many of these former members of the royal household, though of high lineage, have meagre fortunes. The maids of honor and others found their posts richer in honor than in profit. The excuse for the meagreness of the pensions is the inadequacy of the provisions for the royal expenses. During her last few years Queen Victoria was unable to make the civil list meet the official expenditure, and was obliged to draw on her private fortune. King Edward now has to keep up Balmoral Castle and Osborne House, costing £31,000 annually, though he dislikes both i places,
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 152, 9 July 1901, Page 3
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