How Monarchs Sleep.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 284, 10 December 1901, Page 3

How Monarchs Sleep.

There is, after all, but little difference between him who wears a crown and ordinary human beings when it comes to the matter of sleeping and eating and drinking. Emperor William is a soldier even when he goes to bed, for he sleeps on a regulation camp bed, such as his officers use. The bed clothing is of the rough regimental pattern. He retires at 11 p.m., and is up and dressed soon after 5 a.m. Queen Victoria went to bed quite although she was a comparaHlely early riser. Year in and year out her average time of going to bed was 10.15. A lady in waiting was deputed to read her to sleep. The Czar of Russia has the greatest difficulty in getting a good night s rest, and yet he is what ohl-fashioned people call “ a lover of the lied. He dreads the night. His room is always brilliantly lighted, like a receptionroom. He often suffers from acute insomnia and makes frequent use of chloral. , , . , Queen Wilhelmina goes to bed about 11 o’clock and gets up early. On rising she takes a stroll around the park and visits the stables. Her bedstead is of monumental size, being broad enough for six and proportionately Leopold HI-, the King of the Belgians, goes late to bed. He spends half the night working and reading. In strong contrast to his neighboring sovereign, he uses an ordinary bedstead without anv other luxury than a quilt of swansdown. He is. a very chilly mortal. . The King of Italy cannot sleep except upon a very hard bed. He dispenses with the use of pillows. He uses sheets of the very coarsest web, and sleeps like a top.