PEN AND INK SKETCHES OF ROYALTY.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 37, 3 May 1879, Page 3

PEN AND INK SKETCHES OF ROYALTY.

HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN.

We,extract.the.fpliowi^^fr^ Anecdotal Photographs in Mr. iabouchere's cleverly- written jburbal, : Truth ,«— ' ; I^yfirstrecollectioh '/of HerMajestyis connected witha banquet attheMansioh -House, where she asked for cherry tart when .there wasinbne on the menu. Thii in the days when Prihce Albert was in his prime, and when society was queerlyceptioiis in colleqtingany tattle /that could tell to the disparagement of tbur XGeriiianised Ccmrt. "Loyalty has s ybecpme much uef per now tliiah it wias "then, for autiy alleged solecism in royal manners,^^ any imputed act of pettiness Ai>v ywayward are eagerly .^lo^ed^./upon, /and Ministers" were .acbounted famous according to their repu--4atiph.fo r :enublßing. the Court. .After -the beet- chamber, business, which obliged Sir Robert Peel to give ,up r the -*tai»k of forming a Cabinet in 1839; the ■ SToriesy at some agricultural bpnquet.i .affected to drink thetoast of . " Ohurch ih glum silence ; and after • Sir._fi)b>rt'B' ap^iritment in 1841 some JdrajT'; ;thmgs were told about Her coldness towards some of the. ; 'Court ladies" jtrust upon her, 'as lt a ' was ' \ gaid against her will. ; The only truth is 1 that in Prince [Albert^ days, the etr<quette of the Court was extremely severe f a^d some of the young ladies in attendapce had occasionally to > be reminded i;thatthej were expected to > remain standing when the Queen or Prince was in; - the roomy and that, moreover, they -mustr net mix in the con v^rsatipn! by word or laughtei? unless requested! A certain }i_iaid;of hempr whpjiad a beautiful singand lias since become acliarm'/wgpeeress,^ was one day bidden to sit down at the piano and pliy : 'something. She declined; forgetting that the Queen's „..w.iaheß;'.weiße.,:a.' command. The Queen kindly, but the ltd aliden urged that she had a celd., ; ''.Well, theriv you had better, go to beiJ," said her Majesty "Oh, np;.thank.you," was the answer, V hut; if you dont mind, i'\\, Jsit down," and inie did.v On vanother occasion a maid --of honor who had accompined the - to the opera; and- who ought by pghtatoha^e^ken.ase^^^^ back yof rthb box; heedlessly sat Mown 'gin? a j /; chair for the t Prince Consbrt. A glance from the' Queen warned her that she had pommitted a blunder, V but -the.'giCwas-o'biu^e'orrs^ubb^ni', for she I merely 'removed _to lA-a, chair in thei front row inter ded for 'anbther i me'm- j ber of - end this ' : 3id^^_iot:-.oqly...'f;tiek''-''to her I Y place, hut>ignored the fltness of thirigs by applauding throughout the perfor- , inanee, like the /rest of the audience. This, however is not so bad as the iebndjictrof that newly-apjjointed equerry, , who tras toldhe must appear in kpeev breeches at^thp- royal .dinner-table, but who came down in trousers, and naively apologised Xo r the Queeh^ saying/that' he had^odnd his new breeches top tight. .-; -Btiqueite is not:- merely designed, as , soiiie-people appose,, to hedge (crowned - heads"^ with .reverence j it ia .regulated, also lo secure them - complete privacy when thoy-want it, in so much that- ■• hreaeli r-'ol etiquette acts mucli in the «ame way as an intrusion would. uppfl Potato persons, -There are some rules C of etib^aette,^^toS; : whieh>are framed to , -the soVorbigh from the im'poKuaac^p|:preiie«tin^.pe"Ht^^ -formerly aV^ug or 4^|«fe'3^'^nin^-' : 'r_^in ; 'the '. .;fa^*..;p^.. ; ansr''/^^AV^b'VM uot of .■■frffyi)* bloody and -until the elpse of t 6?orjge^^ll. 's reign tlieroyal family were waited upon at table by gonjloineii

pages, to w;hom the seryants handed the dishes, and who presented them standing when the Court dined in privatey on bended knee at public banquets. The formalities have now been abolished to some extent, but; the Prince' Consort when out shooting would never take the gun from the hands yof the game-keeper--^-lie required '.'.that .it should , be: handedtb him by one of : tlie equerries; and. the/ Qiieen herself is strict' in 'req uiring t^at i.all the personal attendance' she requires except at -table, shall' be /done by-lthe, ladies and gentlemen .pf her r Court. M. Guizot used to. relate. that when her Majesty , ; yisited.Louis" ; Philippe, at the Chateau d-Eau in! 1843 J , the King having heard that it was the^Queen's habit to, drink a glass;^pf ; eWater bejore. retiring for the night, ordered '^me' should be brought,her. It.^aspi'eseated by a lacquey, and her Majesty refused it. Louis Philippe, seeing there yr as something wrong, whispered ; to one' of his : sons, who went to fetch , the tray,, andthis time the Qtieeri tbok'the'j glass graciously enough. It does { not seem to have struck M. Guizot that 1 the King would have done, better to have offered the glass, himseif;: .and that^in this remission.he showed himself much^ less of a firieygentlenian'thahVNapo^^^^ ] 111., who, during the Quen's visit to Paris in 1855, took pare 'on' all occasions to treat her Maje3ty,not merely as a fellow monarch, but as a lady. The 'visit to Paris, by the wray, was 'marked ; by a little incidept which rather shocked the Queeh^. _V|^balt was i;g|yeii;aifc tlieHotel de 'vylle^^a^C^M^sa^yiof > %al ■masque celebrityl conducted 'the 'orches-, t.tra; The. unfortunate many. thbiking, to | pay a complime^tyto ' the English sbve;reign, ha,d set '• God Save the ' Queen " to polka /measure ;* and as-' Napoleon 111. had no ear at all for music; he would never have perceived ihe mistake had not a chaniberlain. pointed it out to him. One thing that riatlier' surprised the French _smperor in ,his entercpurise j with the Queen was her intimate knOTV-/ lege of political affairs, and her utter freedom from reticence m discussing them. She^asConstitutionalYeeough in the sense of being resolved' never to resist the clearly, expressed wish pf Parliament, /but ? s_l ! let it e'seen^ that she .directed her •Ministers ; quite ?as much as they^ advised ; her, Mpst.Pre-j miershaye.b^en^ towards thei Queehi; ftftd the only,;pne who was. not. so— Lord JJ ohn Russell—had lib reason to congratuiate himself upon his crabbedness; if or heY'got unto ; very ill-bdbur' at Gourt, : and * found no support there in trying times. He was one of the ! very few statesmen^ who: ever received a downrig sharp answer from* tlie Queen^-^his was''in-1860,^ifter/ . the Italiah revolutiobv Jwheh ,the differ-; eht Grand Dukes/wereibeihg disposaessed. The Duchess of 'Parma, in great distress^ wrote to the 'Queen, beseeching, her to intercede with "VictdriEmma- ;\ ..niiel-,- so tliat^^her private property, might ynot be confiscated ; and :the; Quee.n, 'compassionately, willing to do what was asked, showed the letter to 1 Eari Russell;/'." Tlie Constitution demands that I should ansiver«thatj" 'remarked l.iis I lordship, in his pipingy uncongenial voioe; y Wellj th'en,y,answer;/,it,":^said the Queen curtly, and turned away, miich offended. It has often been said that Jthe Queen liked iord" Palmer ston j but-tliiiis'ante^rpr./He^^ ters have ' been l-Lprds" Melbburne" 3 and Aberdeen. Sir Peel alve ; "afif first' dislikedintensely, but her aversion wore off when she ,eame tpiknpjw^hini be|tep j, and exactly the same thing pccurre,d.|n. the case of Mr.. Disraeli. Lord Beaconsfield is tperhaps notj awarpr thajj until he acceded to the Premiership' in 1868 the Queen had.only read one of his novels^" Henrietta Temple" , She^ read,- all the others m the cohrse bf thLe"' three. /moiithe pisraelr-h become -her chief adviser ; /a'nd'in diie time enjoyed ;" Lothair," thougli'the present Premier "has never ranked among her fkvbrite Authors /'jFor ; this his .lordship .; may : .^pnsple, seeing that Thackeray and the 1 lkte;i | Lord Ly ttqn are un d.ep the .' ?ame ban asT [himself. The Queen likes Dickens's' novels, one or* twb'-of Eliot's, but chiefly Wilkie Gollins's and Win.' Black's f-/they lattervsr of ; Scotch' scenery' being very'dear to her^ : 't-;!ir;V' ■;;;>' fir?'Y r Y;'fiy;: vSji »Yi ?V?' vi-f.-'iA