Royal Etiquette Around the World

Throughout her reign, Queen Ranavalona III utilized diverse tactics such as strengthening trade and diplomatic relations with the United States and Great Britain in the hope of staving off impending colonization. –Image source: afrikanwomen.com

                             

Royal Bits and Throne Lights

Mary, Queen of Scots, and George II, were both buried at midnight.

A Queen who insists on going barefooted is Her Majesty of Madagascar. All the same, she wears the most expensive of Parisian toilets.

Sultan Abdul Hamid’s hair never grows white. To prevent that, it is dyed, and the dyeing is repeated as often as is needful, for, according to Turkish Court etiquette, the Sultan’s hair must always be black.

The Prince of Wales has inherited from his mother the faculty of really interesting himself, not feigning interest, in whatever is brought before his notice. It is said by those intimate with the Queen that she never allows herself to look bored. Whoever may be introduced to her, has her very best attention for the time being.

Princess Louise, Duchess of Fife, lives her own quiet life among the hills of Braemar, doing her errands like the wife of a crofter. The Duchess-of-Fife is the wonder of the district, and many an uppish dame has been inclined to sneer at the modestly dressed young lady who enters a village shop, orders a pound or two of that, a few yards of ribbon, etc., and carries them off to her carriage.– Chico Record, 1897

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