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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 64, 10 April 1909, Page 4

HOW ROYALTY SLEEPS. 'These intimate revelationssaid ;i diplomat to it representative of a Home paper the other day, "were made to me, you may suppose, by. a fly or a llcti. ,\l any rate, tlivv are. autlientie. "Take, iirst, AYilliam the Silent—l mean the German Emperor, of course. He bleeps in a small room, 011 a military iron cot. At eleven he turns in, and at live punctually every morning he gets up. His sleep ia always wretched, owing to his nervous, high-strung temperament. "The King of the Belgians sleeps, winter and summer, under a quilt of swansdown. Ho is very shivery. Xo windows are opeu iu Iris room, and a fire—save in August—'blazes fiercely ill the chimney. I "The young King of Spain sleeps on a] hard, perfectly flat lied, without pillows or bolster. Thics is to prevent him [ from getting round-shouldered. 1 "The Tsar, of Eiussia lias to resort to| sleeping-draughts in order to get suffl- \ •ient rest. His clumber door is guarded jy two gigantic soldiers. The room all | ni"lrt long is brilliantly lighted. 'tin-1 •a«y lies the head'—you know, cspeci-] illy the Russian head—'that wears a 1 rowu.'"