THE PRINCE OF WALES, HEIR.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1648, 18 October 1887, Page 3

THE PRINCE OF WALES, HEIR.

In everything except the indispenfiible tawny beard that falls like a roll of dead gold silk to the extremity of a massive chest, Prince Albert Victor, the eldest son of the Pfinos of Wales, models himself on Ouida’s heroes. He is as fond of nick-nacks as a lady, His paivate apartments are the nearest approach to the talented but vulgar authoress’ ideal of a young guardsman’s rooms. He would not brush his hair otherwise than with an ivory-backed brush to save his life. Ean de Cologne and other perfumes hm their place in his bath. To write a note on paper that was not a triumph of the perfumer’s art, would, in his own imagination, be unworlhy of bis tastes and position. He has started in life in tact as an ex quisite of George IV. type, bat luckily for himself and for the nation he is preserved from some of the most objectionable traits of the •* First Gentleman’s ” character be the sensitive shyness of his disposition. He differs again from most exquisites in having a praiseworthy desire to pay promptly for the luxuries in which he indulges. Indeed, he worries his attendants to worry his tradespeople to send their bills sharp, and frets and fumes if the astute shopkeepers—alive to the value of having the future King of England upon their books within decent limits—delay in delivering their accounts. Like his father, he gets his clothes—and plenty of them—from Poole, Prince Albert Vic or’s idea of dignified mufti is a frock coat and lavender or grey trousers, He seldom wears u cutaway coat, and even when travelling hardly ever appears in a suit of dittos. On the whole ha may be described as a very stately and so'emn young naan. London Letter in an American paper.