HOW A PRINCESS LIVES.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 173, 22 July 1881, Page 4

HOW A PRINCESS LIVES.

The position of the Princess of Wales is too exalted a one to permit of touch social enjoyment, yet has not the splendid potentialities of reigning royalty. The Princess, too, is peculiarly unostentatious^ and evidently finds the magnificent loneliness of her position an actual trial. To be young and beautiful and idolised, and yet to be shut out from most forms of social amusement, can be by no means delightful. Yet there are of course very few houses, even among those of the highest nobility, to which the Princess of Wales can go as an invited guest. And, when she does go, an awful state hedges her around. She is passionately fond of dancing, yet no gentleman can ask her to dance. She it is who singles out the personage whom she desires as a partner, and, when she stands up to dance, all other/dancers must sit down. After circling around the room some half-a-dozen times, she pauses and sits down to rest, and then the remainder of the waltzers may take a turn, but as soon as she stands up again they must stop. This solitary Grand Lama kind i of performance cannot be Very amusing [ to this kindly, gentle, amiable lady. She is, I am told, a most accomplished dancer, despite her slight lameness. But, of all the recreations of her life, she most enjoys driving in the park. In her little victoria, ..with her damede compagnie beside, her,- she, as free to enjoy the testimonials of affection and enthusiasm that meet -her everywhere, and no one that notes the gracious smile and bow wherewith she returns every salutation can doubt her delight at her own popularity. — American paper.