Identifier: withinroyalpalac00font (find matches)
Title: Within royal palaces : a brilliant and charmingly written inner view of emperors, kings, queens, princes and princesses ...
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Fontenoy, marquise de, pseud
Subjects: Courts and courtiers
Publisher: Philadelphia, Hubbard Pub. Co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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wifes breakfast table decked with this photo-graph-stained porcelain, when he saw a deep golden streamof tea running down the cheek of his revered mothers faceon the teapot while helping himself to milk from a milk jugadorned with the features of his son, and subsequently rinsinghis cup in a slop-basin decorated with a group of his familytaken in front of the library window at Sandringham. The Princess, who, besides being a pianist of rare talent,plays exquisitely on that most difficult of all instruments, thezither, has now turned her attention to the sweet-toned philo-mele, a stringed instrument very much in shape like a violin,but much more comfortably handled. Not only the Princessherself and her daughters, but also her sisters-in-law aretaking lessons, and Princess Louise, Marchioness of Lome,is particularly distinguishing herself on this queer-shapedinstrument. A pretty story is told about the Princess. The scene of it wasthe Mansion House, the occasion was a ball that was given
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The Princess of Wales. 68 WITHIN ROYAL PALACES. some years ago, and to which, among other invites,* was aprovincial Mayor, who had the honor of being introduced to thepretty Princess. The tale goes, and the truth of it is vouchedfor, that upon his Worship asking, against all rules of eti-quette, the Princess to grant him a dance, she replied witha touch of delicate humor : I do not know whether you willnot be rather afraid ; some of my children are only justrecovering from the measles, and you might take them.The wearer of the civic chain, however, was equal to theoccasion, for, bowing low, he replied: I should be delightedto take anything from so charming a source. Those employed about the Court and thus brought per-sonally into contact with the different members of the Royalfamily, speak somewhat strongly about the different mannersin which the offspring of the various princes and princessesare being trained up, or, to put it in the homely vernacular ofthe domestics themselves, taug

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