KINGS WHO ARE IN TRADE.
MONARCHS AS SHOPKEEPERS. ■ Many of us art- apt; to look upun | kin£3 and other exalted personages as ! lucky peopie who are above the need of money, and ;ort of play at being really serious persons. But quite a number «'f reigning monarch's are glad io add to their revenues by some sort of trade or other, and as the modern royalty ia qjite one of the most busy people on ! earth it is marvellous hew some of i them manage, with all the important things they have to consider, to be auccesful tradesmen info the bargain. | The great German Emperor, for in- | stance, owns a porcelain factory, as ; does the King of Saxony, l>oth indus- j tries that require a great deal of busi- j ness acumen to run successfully. Few women know, perhaps, that the eelebrated " Hohenlonhe" corsets are made in the factory presided over by Duke Ulrich of Wurlemburg, The King of Servia, who has so busy lately, doubtless Ims given i'- : w thoughts to his motor-car agency, in which he is greatly inter- j ested, though perhaps he may have to make practical use boih for himself and his soldiers of some of the I patent medicines in the manufacture i of which he has a pecuniary interest. The autocratic Czar of all the Russians bos also stooped to dabble in trade, and has turned hisHiuge tracts of forest into a satisfactory source of revenue. He has done much to develop the timber trade between Russia and England. Candle-making 'ls rather a novel trade for a woman, but the Archduchess Frederick of Austria has a process of her own by which site makes a scented variety of wax candle, and is able to supply the palace with all the candles needed for the daily illumination, a by no means small task. How nice it must be to have a mother who makes toys for you, just the toys you wani—toy soldiers dressed in quaint uniforms, an 1 animals painted wonderful colours, to say nothing of a doll with a particular style of nose that cannot be bought at" an ordinary shop. All those delights are enjoyed by the children of Princess Carl of Sweden, who is a very clever toy maker, and is said, to construct many of the toys used in her children's nursery, to their great pride and delight. The voung King of Spain, who is aiways'to the fore in any modern movement, is said to have invested a ■ very considerable portion of his capitali'n a motor and bicycle factory near Madrid. Av.other enterprising royalty is the Grand Duke of Saxe Weimar, who is connected with several businesses m- : eluding a butcher's establishment and '' a Berlin publishing bouse, two concerns that would seem to require very • different systems of management but I no doubt the royal Duke i- suikci- \ ently versatile to oversee litem botn successfully. The beautiful Crown Princess of Roumania. who is usually associated in one's mind with only the most ! romantic ideas, has. it would seem, a v»ry d'fferent and more utilitarian ' side to her activities, for she has founded and financed one o! the largest quill tooth-prick factories in the ■ world. , .. . ~ Another roval lady, the Duchess of Gui"e makes a speciality of m.illmery, and some or the bats that =he turns out would do credit to one oi the firstclass establishments in the Rue r.e la Paix, and although this is a iorm oi 1 trade that has been greatly overdone bv lesser ladies, the Duchess is alw::,ys ' sure of an undiminished popularity in ', this direction. ..,.,_„,„ , ROYAL HOTEL KERrRU>. Hotel keeping is a bramm oi tixicio ' (hat a good many peopie woulci shirk ' from venturing upon, there are so ' m any different kinds of people to „leasp. and the visitors are. oi course mere birds of passage, here to-day and «rone to-morrow, and ever there looms on the horizon for the proprie- , "it,, f„ ->!■;; (if the "off" season. ! tor the teuOu- o ■-■ '- But one roval couple, the Duke and , Duchess Carl Theodore of Havana, . notwithstanding the aUenaanf difficul- . ties, owns a very succsesful hotel at • Tegernsee, a place about twenty-nine miles south of Munich. The hotel has the advantage ot be- . in»- situated amidst the most beautiful ■ scenery at the side of the lake, and i is very well patronised. _ 3 Another royal hotel keener is the , £j n ,r 0 f Wurtemburg, who owns two ■ hotels within his domain ?. ; Tea shops seem to find great favour, i *oo with royal personages, and it is '. 'aid that one of the most fashionable -, tea shops in Bond street was started . and financed by one of our own Pnn--1 ceases: at least the patrons like, to - think, as they sip their tea and eat » the delectable cakes provided, that ) this is the case. [ Whether her Royal Highness did or - did not start the tea room is. however, a much-debated point, but anyway > this royal lady has certainly shown ' bv the manner in which she has 3 administered the various charitable 3 undertakings in which she has taken i an interest that she has a sound bus i iness head, and probably could, if i she chose, take a foremost, place in ! the ranks of royalties who go in for -; trade.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 600, 6 September 1913, Page 2
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