QUEEN VICTORIA. How She Lives and What She Does.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 195, 19 March 1887, Page 8

QUEEN VICTORIA. How She Lives and What She Does.

Thb Queen's lifo at Balmoral is very simple and quiet. Her suite is large. Her Majesty is always accompanied to the Highlands by her Royal Highness the Princess Beatrice, whose devotion tj her mother is a splendid example to every English, or, as the Queen would her eelf say, every •' British" daughter. Since the Princess's marriage she is, of course, frequently accompanied by her i husband, Prince Henry of Battenberg. | whose pleasant frankness of manner ai d genuino kindne?B of nature have won for him a high place in the regard of the Highlanders. Occasionally other members of the royal family visit the Quoen. The Prince and Princece of Wales often como to Abergelcie, which is quite near Balmoral ; and this season the young widowed Da chops of Albany has been staying at Birk Hall. Frequently her Majesty invites some of her friends to resido ac Abergeldie Mains, and a visit to them there for an afternoon call or an afternoon tou makes a pleasant drive. A lady in waiting, two young ladies — maida of honour a Cabinet Minister, an equerry, one of the Queen's secretaries and the doctor may be said to make up the suite J and the Queen's able and indefatigable commissioner, Dr. Profeit, is always at hand; Uer Majesty, hero, as everywhere, wotks veiy hard, and gives much of her time to the business of the nation, the management of her own estate, and the welfare of tho people atnoog whom she Hve3. She spends as much as possible of hpr tim.3 in the open air, roading and writing outside when tho weather permits, and sometimes breakfasting and taking tea in one ol the summer houses ; in walking about tho lovely grounds, with a single attendant, and one or more of her fine collie dogs ; and in taking long diives to places of interest ?ind beauty in the neighbourhood, and frequently honouring somo of tho neighbouring gentry with ti visit. The Qiicoti also visits a great deal in the homes of the cotters, in many of which there are tokens in the shape of photographs, pictures, books and other valuable presents of her Majesty's affection and rogard for ber humble subject? and friends. It ia most touching to hear them speak of the Queen's kindness, and the interest they take in all the members of the Royal family is very great, and almost intimately personal in its character. She frequently shares in their domestic joys by attending in their homes the " kristnin " (christening) of a baby, and in their sorrows by being presont at tho short religious service performed by the minister on the occasion of a funeral. (