The Queen's German proclivities.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 336, 23 January 1889, Page 6

The Queen's German proclivities.

The feeling in England against Germans and Germany is rendered more bitter from the fact that the Queen and her entourage in extraction, tastes and manners are more German than the Germans themselves. The Battenberg olique, as they are termed ii* English society, together with her foreign grandchildren, so engross the Queen's attention that she little heeds the open contempt with which the leading nobility regard her German silver, or pewter-platedt eccentricities, as they are styled. A fash--ionable London journal thus alludes to thesubiect :— ' When our sovereign takes her walks and drives abroad in the company of her relatives, a . grand ducal or princely German is sure to> be one of the party. Most of the Queens horses, and most of the Queers men are kept to benefit these connections* from the fatherland. Another thing to. be said is that the English nation-has never sought to sfcook Germany with surplus English princes. If three or four of our royal ' dukes had been packed off to Berlin with- ■ out a penny to bless themselves with, and the Prussian Government had been called upon to find them in comfortably wellpaid berths, with rich princesses for wives. there might be some excuse *fcwc n certain" feeling against the country^ The lamented • Fritz had an English-bom consort.. it is' true, but the animosity excited by this alliance might well be allayed. 1 on considering that by descent, if not by birfcjbplac*?,, the Princess was as thoroughbred a German as her husband^ or any of his family.