BREAKFASTS AT WINDSOR CASTLE.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1144, 11 September 1882, Page 4

BREAKFASTS AT WINDSOR CASTLE.

Thebe is an excellent billiard room at Windsor, where smoking is allowed and cooling drinks are to be obtained. The idea that the regulations ar to smokingare of.inconvenient stringency is quite illusory. There are smokingrooms, not merely for the household and guests, but for the upper and ordinary servants. It is impossible to grant liberty to guests to smoke in their rooms, as the next person might dislike the smell, and after a night’s occupation by some of tbe German visitors, one would find an a' mosphere capable of curing a Westpbalian-ham. In the morning there is daily service at 9 o’clock in the private chapel, conducted by the Dean of Windsor, but as visitors are expected to leave by the 11 o’clock train, they have quite enough to do to get their breakfast comfortably, unless they are very early. There are two breakfast tables going on, and the meal can be obtained in one's own room if wished. It is etiquette that the Queen invariably breakfasts in private and either alone or only with persons of the blood royal, so that the visitor’s intercourse with Her Majesty is confined to a greeting before dinner, a chance observation during the meal, and a few’ minutes of conversation in the corridor after it —unless, indeed, you are a Minister, in which case you may be honoured with a private audience in the White Drawing-room.