QUEEN ALEXANDRA'S DAY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 136, 30 May 1908, Page 3

QUEEN ALEXANDRA'S DAY.

llu\Y BHITALN'S BKST BKUM'KD kSPKNDS lIKK TI.MK. Her Maje.-ty Queen Alexandra jiever so thoroughly enjoys her life sli" doe-, when leading, so far a- may be. the life of a private lady at ham, her favourite home/ Always an early riser. Queen Alexandra U up and about soon after neveu o clock. After a cup of tea or chocolate—the later, as a rule—her Majesty leaves, her room and commences her daily round. So matter what the state of the weather may be, she at once proceeds out of doors, and has a brink walk. Breakfast at Sandringham h partaken of. when there are no gue*ts staying in the hou*c, in a small, cfteerfui room overlooking the gardens, to which French window* lead. After breakfast her Majesty make* her way to her boudoir, which stand* On the lirst floor, in the centre of her private suite. Here she transacts all lier business;' and the amount she is called upon to get through day by day is surprising. When her Majesty arrives in her room the letter* have already been arranged in neat piles by the Hon. Charlotte KnoDys. who has been her l»oyal mistress's greatest and most intimate friend for many years. Luncheon is u-ually taken about two o'clock. Two or three afternoons a

wmd; her Majesty visits the tenantry on the estate,-by whom she in literally worshipped. I pon her return home for her cup of tea—for Queen Alexandra is an ardentdevotee of the "live o'clock "—she will .-pend some time with her private >ecrelary, the Hon. Sidnev <«reville. di--cu-*iug variolic matter* of bu>inc*s. -igniug letter-. etc.: while it is about thU hour tint her Maje*tv ineives any other members of her Household who may W on duty at Sandringham. Thi* i«s the lime of day that Queen Alexandra enjoy* best of all. ami when she write- most of her letter* to her intimate friend^. Mer Maje-ty spend- a con-iderabl.' amount of time arranging and clarifyj t ing lier immense collection of photo graphs that she has taken from tim«: to time, and of "which she now po*?,e*se.several thousands. Of the albums con i tabling these photographs, the most in tercsting is the one tlmt contains snap t shots of the various member* of tie I'oyal Family. Among llie-e are photo gi'.sph* of Quern Yieioria lemporari'} "held up" in her ipnil-ey-ehai-o thiougl t lie .iniinal refusing to Inidge an iin li

{\\<> l'liiiff lit Wal<'- in ii -;ihnoit -trciUii. hit<i wl.i<-li <in iii''.uili'"iN ( liim while ii-liini:: ,unl . tlic liMilintf ot a luiiiUliiiK'iit for irojno jn'ank of , v.hicli liK Koyal jrramlfatlier did nul ajiprovp. 1 Dmin'r it M>iiH'lliin.L' . ni a movable l'avoly. bowevvr. it> it >rrvrd lipforp iiiii** uV)o<k. .\s •rnw>ral rub*, wlipn tlwn' :m* no «n«»sl jHTicnt. their .Miijrslir- arc joinrd l»y |lt«> !adi«'> and in attjui'laiw''. ill tlio follows, w ii Ii a bridyo l ililr lor tin- „|>"cial i'litcrtainnu'iit of ill*- Kin^r. UK' 1 "i"-l inoiiiM'ix nf tin' Hoy.i! Kauiily. ( v >ue«>i) Alexandra an mii-irian. and jilay> 1 hi* j'i'.uio with very i skill. Jlw Majostv n for tin* iii'L'ilt coiiipiiratiit'lv inirly; and ■ to tlii>. wilh licr parly viMnrr and li'-i* partiality lor a fntil di«d. •hn> JiUM'h of ht 1 r «»ond hcallli. 1 =