Royalty's Private Life.
[Per Mail Steamer.]
A London cable special, published m New York on April 27, says that memoirs of Princess Alice throw a painful light on small miseries of the great. When she was married her diniug room was so small and stuffy that she could not invite anybody to dinner, and when she had her first child, the Queen had to send baby linen and pay for the doctors. She could not vi«it her mother, nor keep a governess, and when the Emperor of Russia paid her the compliment of a visit, she was almost be-sidu herself afc the expense of entertaining him. The Queen had at last to come to her rescue by spending £20,000 on a new palace, and as the English nation all the time was giving her £6000 a year, besides her dowry of £30,000, the German Prince could not have contributed much to domestic expense. The book contains her complete correspondence with the Queen till the Princess' death, and the work excites greater interest than the Queen's book. Fifteen thousand was issued for the first edition.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 160, 4 June 1884, Page 2
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184Royalty's Private Life. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 160, 4 June 1884, Page 2
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