Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-11-15
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Gossip from the Spanish Court. Z
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Gossip from the sPaniSh Court.
QUH1N ISABELLA, HEB HUSBAND AID HHR
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A MadfId letter in the Lendon DAILY
Nss0s gives this gossiping account Of the
royal family:
yesterday October 10y was the eueen's
birthday, when her Most Gasholic Majesy
Isabella segunda entered on her thirty
fifth year. There was q grand review in
the morning of the troops composing the
garrison of Madrid, consisting Of nineteen
battalions of infantry and twenty regi-
ments of cavalry and artillery. with sew
enty.two pieces of cannon, gOodiy force
enough, though by NO means uniformly to
be relied upon. After being reviewed in
the Prado the troops marched through the
city, and defled before the Queen and
King at the palace. Upon the whole 1t
was 4 hne military display. II was sue
ceeded by o royal reception, which was
brilliantly attended, and which occupied
the entire afternoon. For the benefit of
the ladies, It may be mentioned that the
Queen herself WAS srrayed in rose-ooloredd
robe, covered with choice lace, and be-
spangled with an immense multitude of
diamonds. The Infant Dons Isabella was
in plain white. The King wore the uni
form of captain general of the kingdom,
and the little Prince of the Asturias that
of q sergesntof the guard.
1.-THE Queen of Spain lie now klarge,
poruysWoman, perhaps somewhat olderin
appearance than her years allow. She no
longer can be said TO answer the description
given of her thirty years ago, in one OF the
popular songs of the war of the succes-
sion, which described the conteuding COM
petitors for the throne of Spain;
"sDon carlos f. a hoary ehurl,
Ofcruel heart and cold;
But JEabeRs q lovely girl
49, 40f ouly nix yean DID, y@S.zs5s-]
"But the Queen of Spain, though no long |
err "a lovely girl is still by no means un-
attractive. The Photographic aud portraits |
which are shown in shop windows by no
means do her justice. She has about her
a great deal more sparkle, Viyscity and
good humor than her photographs allow:
indeed, her distinguished characteristic is |
said to be genuine good temper, or, as 1t
has been expressed to me, 'heartiness,
which gains her very large share of the |
ELECTION of those who are privileged to
approach her.
THE Queen is said to be a very afIec-
tionate mother of her children. She has
now four OF them, three girls and q boy.
The eldest, the Infsnta Isabella, approaches
her thirteenth year, having been born on
the 26th of December, 1851. She is an in
teresting young lady, but is said 70 bear
herself somewhat more haughtily than
those about her entirely approve. The
Prince of the Asturiss is the next child,
and is not yet quite eight. He is an ele-
CANT but rather delicate looking boy, who
seems to be worn out with state and study.
The poor little fellow. is driven through
Madrid in a coach and six attended by
guard of honor, almost every afternoon, to
the Retro Ia part of the park reserved for
the royal family, where he takes pleasure
in driving himself about in 9 little goat
chase. He generally accompanied by his
sister, the Infants Isabella. The other
royal children, with their nurses, follow
him in another state carriage drawn by six
mulee, and that is generally followed by
another similar equipage, fall of ladies aud
gentlemen in waiting so that even the
poor little princes drive in his goat chase
is made matter of court ceremony. 1t is
amusing to see this procession of princess
and princesses going to the Prado, followed
by q drag conveying four stately specimens
of the genus 'Jeames,' in gold cooked hats
aud verm i ian stockings who convey from
the royal stables to the Retro the peram-
bulators in which the younger members of
the royal family are doomed to take their
ut is observable that the King and
Queen rarely accompany the royal chill
dreu. They usually take their own seper-
ate drive, almost always in company, but
very rarely with any Of the royal family
with them. The King, indeed, is said to
show very little attachment to any of his
wife's ofspriDgs, though at the same time
he fully recognizes them, and is at the
present moment, it is said, especially aux
ious to to obtain decree of the Cor:es
whereby he shall be appointed regent in
the event of the Queens demise and the
succession of the Prince of the Asturias to
the throne. Whether this arrangement will
be carried out or not it is difficult to say at
present. II is not until next year that a
settlement will become urgent, and much
will depend upon the course of events and
the parties who at that time may be in
power"