PRIVATE LIFE OF ROYALITY.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4513, 22 June 1883, Page 2

PRIVATE LIFE OF ROYALITY.

An American lady who has been patting uome time in h circle very close to the Crown in Kngland, sends some curious and entertaining details of the private life ot royalty to a iriend in this country./ She writes : " Tiio personal attendants* «i Jwr Britannic Majesty have a prettyJprd tiff of it. they'are Dot' so badly :ftirtad M Miss Burner was when she went into bondage as Second Keeper of the Sobet to Queen Victoria's grandmother; bat, ' taking one consideration with another/ their lot is not a hnppy one]"' The Him Horaii.i Stopford, » cousin* bi the Eari Courtown, and one of the Queen's bedchamber women, is toe Queen's favour- .. ite amanuensis, writing most of her letters and taking down ; ,whatever she dictates, an>), as etiquette requires Mua.Stopfbrd to sf»nd while, tboa epga£e4, f «be passes whole hours sometimes writing at an up* 1 right dusk when her Majesty happens to he in an epistolary mood. On tnt recent confinement of .the Duchess of Albany, the Queen, who took a very particular interest in the .event, never sat dew*£nce from nine in the morning till six in the evening, to the intense weariness and dismast of the unlucky maids of honour 10 attendance. The mother of the Duchess of 1- - Albany, the Princess of Waldeek -Pyrmont, was equally provoked, as she thought' fcerself as much entitled as the Queen, if one may use such low language in such alvery high connection, to "'boss the job;'' a«d the two mothers in law kept politely sjftipw itistentij inviting one another to ta«i ratt» and let the poor Doebeis enjoy a little quiet. When it mi all over, and m fisf»a> Princess off Albany Had com* iato the world, it was the turn of tbe father. His ftoyal Highness, the'Dolr* of Albany, on beiog informed of the result, quite lost,his temper! aad^«teai*jed on the floor with rage that ' thi eiild should not have been a Prince. Ai a general thing, however, the Duke of Albany gives lets trouble to thoaeabont him than* any of the royal family. „-His elder brother, the Prince of Wales, exacts constant and asaiduousatteudanee ot ins household, but he is personally eon^ siderijte of them, and changes" his equerries once a month in order to relieve the strain pat on' them. He never opens a book, or so much as reads a newspaper? but.his officers are all bright and clever, and kerp him accurately informed of ! everything thati* going on inppolttiea»,aiuL !in society.—N.Yv World. ' ' '"'