The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-05-10 00:00:00

THE QUEEN'S COURT AND DRAWING

ROOM.

The Queen held a Court and Drawing-room at
Buckingham Palace on Tuesday gternoon. Their
Royal H,ghnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales,
escorted by a detachment of Life (-nerds, arrived at
the Palace from Marlborough-house. Her Royal
Highness Princess Beatrice; his Rcyal Highness the
Crown Prince of Denmark; their 3oyal Highnesses
the Duke and Duchess of Edinbirvh ; his Royal
Highness Prince Leopold; his Royal Highness Prince
Christian of Schleswig Holstein ; and her Royal
Highness the Duchess and his Senna Highness the
Duke of Teck were also present at the Court.
The Queen, accompanied by the Prince and Princess
of Wales, Princess Beatrice, and the other members of
the Royal Family, entered the Thrme Room shortly
after three o'clock.

In attendance upon Her Majesty were :—The
Duchess of Wellington (Mistress of the Robes), the
Dowager Duchess of Athole (Lady of the Bedchamber
in Waiting), the Hon. Lady Hamilton Gordon
(Woman of the Bedchamber in Waiting) the Hon.
Emily Cathcart and the Hon. Frances Drummond
(Maids of Honour in Waiting), Earl Beauchamp
(Lord Steward), General the Marquis of Hertford,
G.C.B. (Lord Chamberlain), the Earl of Brad-
ford (Master of the Horse), Lord Henry Thynne,
M.P. (Treasurer of the Household), the Earl of Yar-
mouth, M.P. (Controller of the Household), Viscount
Barrington, MP. (Vice-Chamberlain), Lieutenant-
General Sir H. F. Ponsonby, K.C.B. (Private Secre-
tary and Keeper of the Privy Purse), Lord de Roe
(Lord in Waiting), Colonel the Hon. C. H. Lindsay
(Groom in Waiting), Lieutenant-General Lord Alfred
Paget (Clerk Marshal), Lieutenant-General the Hun.
A. Hardinge, C. 8., and Colonel the Hon. H. Byng
(Equerries in Waiting), Colonel Sir John Cowell,
K.C.B. (Master of the Household), Mr. H. D.
Erskine of Cardross (Groom of the Robes), and Mr.
A. V. A. Wellesley an the Hon. Francis Hay
(Pages of Honour in Waiting).
The Queen wore a dress and train of black silk
trimmed with crape, jet, and fringes, and a long black
tulle veil, surmounted by a diadem of jet. Her
Majesty wore jet ornaments, the Riband and the Star
of the Order of the Garter, the Orders of Victoria and
Albert, the Star of India, Louise of Prussia, St.
Catherine of Russia, St, Isabelle of Portugal, &c.,
and the Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Family Order.
Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales wore a
dress of black poult.de-loie draped with tulle and
jetted lace; train of striped velvet and gauze lined in
satin; headdress, a tiara of diamonds, feathers and
veil; ornaments, pearls, and diamonds • Orders,
Victoria and Albert, the Star of India, St. 'Catherine
of Russia, and the Danish Family Order.
Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice wore a dress
and train of black satin trimmed with crape and jet;
head-dress, feathers, veil, diamond stars, and jet;
ornaments, diamonds and jet. Her Royal Highness
also wore the Riband and Star of the Order of St.
Catherine, the Orders of Victoria and Albert, the
Star of India, and the Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Family
Order.

The presentations were about two hundred in
number.