The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1860-11-01
Queen Victoria and the Royal Family.

Rev. III. Battles, who is writing a series of let
tiers from England to the lions Herald, draws
the following picture of Queen Victoria and the
ROYAL Family, 1t differs from that generally pre-
scented of her Majesty. The picture was taken at
Ascot races. Ii is well the artist delayed drawing
it until after he was off British soil. He says ::
Having been disappointed by a slow train in
reaching the place in season TO see the Queen and
her husband and children enter. | determined to
get as near her Majesty Us possible, and succeeded
in getting into 4 small enclosure just in front of
her stand, which enclosure, | have reason to think
from a notice, was designed only for members of
the Jockey Club 1t was a very good place,
however, and for an hour or two | had the most
favorable opportunity of looking at and quizzing
the Queen, Prince Albert, Prince of Wales,
Princess Alice, Helen and Louise, together with
her ROYAL Highness, the Duchess of Cambridge,
the Count of Flanders, Prince Louis of Hesse, in
all, eleven carriage loads of royalty and nobility.
prince Albert is n good, wide awake, sensible
looking man, familiar and easy, and fit for u
husband TO a queen, which he Is, and only is.
The Prince of Wales is about eighteen, of light
complexion and rather spare: looks like q fair
senior in college. and will graduate at Oxford
some time in June. The Princesses resemble
strongly the Prince of Wales, and are not espe-
cially noticeable for beauty indeed, | should not
have looked at them a single minute were they
not daughters of the throne. As to the other
personages, L saw nothing that would attract at
tentiOn. There were a thousand on the field
better looking, and to all appearances equally
sensible | suppose it does not require much
sense TO patronize horse-racing, does it? Well,
what of the Queen | am not in England, and
so | may speak. Understand, L was within from
twenty TO sixty feet of her more than an hour,
looking aC her with my own natural eyes, and
with the same eyes assisted by powerful race
glasses, which l borrowed. Let me say, then,
as / think.
Before | express nv thinkings, however, let
me remind you that very recently the Queen re-
fused TO sit for a likeness to an American artist,
because she said her time is fully employed.
This is not the reason, as you will guess. Queen
Victoria is doubtless n mother of several children.
and is said TO be an excellent wife, mother and
woman, which is likewise doubtless but she is
not handsome, as some of her portraits represent
her she is not good looking even. according to
my taste. That kissable little mouth you have
seen in her portraits was borrowed, for it is not in
her face. Her mouth Is rather drawn at the corn
ers, and arched in the centre. Her complexion is
that | have named for her children but her skin
looks blotched and unhealthy. l especially
watched her manners in her conversation and her
movements among the family and visiting royal
ity, and / must say she was entirely wanting in
what is termed grace, and was certainly very far
from appearing queenly, according to the conven-
tional meaning ofthat word. When she bowed in
response to the hearty cheers of her loyal sub
iects, there was n look of the disdainful attached
to n stiff and cherries motion of the head. |
was for n moment within ten feet of her, and
noticed the same expression.
speaking with a gentleman in Paris about
her the other day, he remarked, : o, she does
very we'll for a Queen to fill the throne she
makes n good mother and wife, that is about
all" More than once | heard this sentiment
expressed. The portraits you see are the por-
traits of the Conventional Queen, and not the
real. "-PhiIGdeiphid Sunday Mercury.