THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES IN DENMARK.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1817, 17 December 1879, Page 4

THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES IN DENMARK.

A correspondent at Copenhagen in a letter dated September 2Sth, gives some particulars respecting the -visit of tho Princess of Wales to Denmark, where Bhe has been for several ■weeks visiting her royal parents. This letter B[> v3 : —"The yacht ateamer Osborne, which had been despatched round Cape and through the Bc-lt to Kiel, there to take on Doard°the Prince of Wales, passed Copenhagen yesterday forenoon, receiving on tho ■way the Royal salute from the batteries, and went to Bellevue, a summer place on the verdant shores of the Sound, some five miles from tho capital. Hero tho Princess of W a l° p > w i ta ner children, the rest of the Royul family, the Court official", ani tho members of the British Lagation were assembled Lo met the Prince, who, on landing, was loudly cheered by the numerous spectators. The arrival of tho Prince of Wales completes the Royal family party now assembled at Bernstorff Castle, but. gives, at the same time, to the regret of all, the signal for its speedy dissolution. Tho Hereditary Grand Duchess Maria Fedorowna, or Princess Dagmar, as she is still fondly called in the land of her birth, was the first of tho guests. It was towards the end of June that, she came over, with all her children, and Bhe has, consequently, spent not less than three months in her former home, the Russian yacht squadron eecorting her having all the time romained in our watora. In the beginning of August tho Princess of Wales, with her youthful family, joined tho Royal party, received, like her younger sister, with all the warmest manifesto ions. It had originally boon the intention of the King and the Queen to remove their residence to Fredensborg Castle, situate more inland and at a greater distance from Copenhagen, surrounded by the magnificent beech forests of North Seeland and on the shores of tho peaceful Esrom lake. Tho palace is large and elegantly furnished, and the main building, with the two semicircular wings and the different depotdances.yrovXd have been able to afford ample, or at least sufficient., room for all tho expeoted guests, with their numerous suites and staffs of servants. But on the express wish of the two Princesses, who love Bernstorff and fondly cling to all the dear memories of youth and childhood connected with the place, that plan •was given up, and the Royal family chose to stay in the much smaller summer residence and to submit to tho unavoidable inconveniences of a somewhat crowded house. In fact, Bernstorff Castle, hardly big enough for the establishment of a nobleman or a Manchester cotton lord, is a more than modest Royal maasion. The square building, two stories high, with white-washed walls, and in the unpretending style of this century, lios isolatod in a most charming park, with velvety lawns, extending over an undulating plain strewed with splendid groups of beech, oak and elm in abundant richness of foliage. The park is protected towards the sea, hardly a mile distant, by a line cf forests, but opens towards the country with several most attractive views over fertile fields, forest - covered hills, and snug villages. Only a small strip of garden hes been reserved as private ground for the Royal inhabitants, the rest of the park baing thrown open to the public ; and the two giant Life Guardsmen placed ns sentinels at the entrance are not there to keep off intruders, but only as symbols of the Royal dignity. Some cottages, hidden under a cluster of tall trees, afford scanty accommodation for the suite and the servants. Even in the Castle itself room is very scarce, tho State and family apartments taking up nearly all the principal floor and leaving very limited space for individual nse. It "is said that the two Princesses insisted upon sharing the same bedrcom as in former days whoa they were children, brought up under the tender eyes of loving paronts, but in a house of the most frugal character, and still unacquaintod with tho Bplondour and elegance surrounding them in their present illustrious station. The young Princes and Princesses of Wales and of R.>m£.noff were accommodated on a much smaller scale than they are accustomed to in Marlborough-house or tho Winter Palace, but seem to have enjoyed immensely the more free and easy life afforded to thorn under theeo conditions. They have lived and played together exactly as cousins do in common families, the differences of language notwithstanding, and they appear to bo on the very best of terms with each other as with their Danish cousins, the children of the Danish Crown Prince and Crown Princess, the eldest of whom has just completed his ninth year."