The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1867-05-10
Queen Victoria.

"Burleigh" writes from London to the
Boston Journal:
''On the death of the Prince Consort the
Queen had Buckingham Palace dismantled,
and so it remains TO this day, all except the
private rooms. The Queen will not drive
through the royal gateway of the palace, nor
has she since her husband died. She will
not ride through the royal entrance 10 the
House of Lords, but goes in through the
Peers entrance. She will not wear the
royal robes, and when she opens Parliament
in person the robes are thrown over the
back of the throne, which is gilded chair
surmounted with gilt crown, and sits on
ihem. She comes to London when duty
calls, seldom passes q night in her capital,
and has passed less than a dozen in four
years. She remains in quiet at Windsor or
Osborne. She has no company but what
her official position imposes on her. The
state apartments at Windsor are all disman-
tied and are unused-the massive plate is
not used-a plain silver service is putOn the
table-a small, quiet pony and low wheeled
carriage the Queen uses for her private rides
at Windsor, and she seldom, unless duty
calls her to London goes beyond the private
park of the Castle. The one hundred fine
horses that I'LL the Windsor news are seldom
used, a nd the eight creams for state occasions
are not driven twice year.
"The room in which the Prince Oonsort
breathed his last is kept with scrupulous
care Just as the Prince left it. The ladies'
say that each night the dressing gown and
slippers are put in their accustomed place.
The Queen's confidential attendant is
Highlander by the name of Brown. He takes
all the orders from the Queen-and barelcg
ged messengers come from the Queens
Apartments at Windsor when er Majesty is
to be served. This Brown has been the oc-
casion of world of talk. He is about fifty
tall and spare with great assurance, and
attends the Queen to and from London. Great
attempts have been made to dislodge him,
but all in vain. The Queen has a will of her
own. Brown was the Prince COnsort's High
land servant, and was held by him in all
honor. While Victoria rules England Brown
will rule the royal household.
"Refusing to play the Qu en-, her Majesty
has never forgotten to play the woman. Her
visits to Balmoral and Osborne are benedic-
tions to the poor. She allows no uuseemly
honors. She drives her own pony wagon.
Daily she goes her round with her carriage
filed with little gifts for the sick, the infirm,
the poor. These she distributes with her
own hand By the bedside of the aged and
neglected the Queen kneels and prays to the
Sovereign of All. To one she daily reads,
to another she presents some needed comfort;
and she is especially tender to little ones
who are in sorrow or want. All through the
Highlands she is regarded as an angle of
mercy.
''Her favorite room at Windsor overlooks
the tomb at Frogmore where Prince Albert
lies He was benefactor to the poor, and
the work he began she seems resolved to
finish. The night he died the Queen called
in young widow who was in her household
to sit with her, and when all was over the
Queen said: No one now lives that can call
me Victoria