The Marlborough House stables alone cost the Prince of Wales $80,000 a year. Queen Victoria is a judge of pictures and a connoisseur of sculpture. Frost, Mulready and Correggio are her favorites. Kaiser Wilhelm is the only one of the three Emperors who reads the newspapers for himself. The Czar and the Emperor of Austria have a private journal of cuttings set up for them daily.
The Russian Grand Duchesses are all handsome women. The Czar’s daughter Xenia is a copy of her Danish mother, and presents a very pretty picture with her mild blue eyes, auburn hair and clear cut, delicate features. The Empress Frederick has turned her attention to local mission work, and recently built a model hospital at Cronburg, in the Taunus, for the sick and poor of that village. The house is small, but constructed and furnished on scientific principles.
The progressive King of Siam, in his anxiety to better the condition of his people, has taken to wandering among them disguised in plain clothes. The King must originate every reform himself, for not even his most progressive subjects would dare to commit so great a breach of etiquette as to suggest any innovations upon established customs. – Press Democrat, 1891
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