The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-02-18
II QUEEN IN EXILE,


II QUEEN IN EXILE.
How Queen Isabella and the Roya
Family or Spain Live I'm Paris
Translated from La Petite Presse
The Queen occupies the first floor of her ney
mansions-that which opens on the Rue al
RlvOli, while the King coDsort and Prince O
Asturias live in the rooms looking down upo1
the Rue Salnte HonOre.
The Queens apartments are the most snnci
GUS ana gorgeous. The first of the suite O
gold salon. The hangings are made of Grim.
son velvet, and the furniture wrought out o.
rosewood. Then follows small room with red
sllken hangines and black walnut furniture
The boudoir, hung with green velvet and fur.
nished in the most elegant style, which is ad-
joining to the bed-chamber, has been transfer
red into the Queens study. The bed-cbamber
is hung with dark red velvet. spacious and very
brought with her from Spain is made of cast
iron, beautifully gilded. and Sled with three
mattresses covered with red satin.
,a Aaa5o,nlng me queens chamber is another
bedroom, which is occupied by her femme de
champre. 1t is filled with number OF clothes
presses and strong boxes, containing the
famous and precious jewels Of the Queen. Her
servants call 1t the diamond room Onnoa,te
the Queens apartments are those Of the King
consort consisting of large and small saloon.
bed chamber and five other rooms. The
Prince of the Asturias lives with his faLher, and
occupies q part Of these rooms. The Kings
ped, as we'll as that Of the Queen, has been
brought from Spain. But it is very plain
made of cast iron, without gliding, and as mar
row as that OF child. Between. the apart
ments of the King and those of the Queen.
which communicate with one another there is
q splendid and very large dining hall, with
furniture OF carved oak wood and hang1ngs Of
superb damask.
Breakfast is served at eight o'clock, and in
variably consists of chocolate. At eleven
1n2cheon is served. The King consort and
the Queen sit down to it alone. After they
oeptor take thcir places. The little princesses,
who occupy the secs,nd floor over the Queens
apartments, likewise brcs. fast by themselves.
Count Depeletta and NJ. Unlate, tho two
most distinguished personages tn~e nave ac-
companled the royal family to Paris, o,.c
the second floor OYER the rooms of the Rins
consort There are, besides, sixty servants Of !
all classes in the house,
The King consort and Queen dine at six en-
tese-d-tete, and are then waited upon by domes-
excellent, and does the greatest honor to the
COOK who IS Frenchman, and, believe, a
Partisan. The favorite wines Of the royal
couple are those OF the Gilonde and Cham |
payne.
The Queen goes out but vcry little except !
her daily promenade Of at least two hours at |
the Bois de Boulogne; she then returns home, |
ana, as general thing, spends her evenings
reading, writing or receiving visitors. She has
not subscribed to any French journal, but |
three or four Spanish papers are mailed to her
indirectly, and she receives, besldes an in |
credible number Of letters frUm all countries. |
and great many applications for audiences.
The Queen wears very fine and varied tot |
lets. On sunday, at Saint Germain PAuxer-
r3ols. she was dressed in short but elegant |
brown silk cloak, and on the day when she |
VISITED her mother, she wore long robe Of |
violet satin with white stars.
great many visitors try to gain access to |
her, but as O matter of course. ali of them |
are not admitted to her. Her porter has to |
open the front door daily several hundred |
times, and to answer questions such as the !
following:
Ssoes the Queen of Spain live herep
Or;
'sIs Queen isavo,,a ~ :, uu1iie i ~
AT 1our O'Clock the Queen leaves her apart
ments to make her daily pro uenade at the
Bols de Boulogne. She rides out in her Ian
dau, seated between the King consort and the
Prince of Asturias.
Inc King is Of short stature and rather
obese, but very straight and possessed Of
1uito afLble manners. He wears q long nous
tache, ana is inclined slightly to tho left; his
face is mild rather tian efeminate; his atti-
tude is more politely reserved and modest
than cold or affected. ne always wears a black
oress suit and gloves, and appears more like
% me Queens cavalier than her husband. Even
, In 1ne middle Of painting, his face and form
would attract little or no attention.
me Precocious embonpoint Of the Queen
has oeen somewhat exaggerated, and aaa )
that it does not lessen very much her natural
grace and majesty. Her type is that ~ a !
Bourbon-regular, but somewhat too haouv
When she descends the broad staircase OF tIc
house, hanging on thu King consort g arm tno
step is SLOW, almost solemn. and her e~oa aer;e
9us {%s nnn amost stern You look 20 er she is snl
br.~s ,..uaeny broad. honest smile
--.s ntens and lessons the hard expression OF
her features. She has just perceived the
Prince Of Asturias and is now nothing but q |
mother. She enters the carriage, and few
Spaniards- all of them belonging to |
the popular classes-have hastened to her, |
greeting her bareheaded and IN the most re-
spectfui mannsr. Isabella bows to them with |
visible emotion, and smiles mournfullv. Such !
are the thanks OF the exile. IsabelIa's mo-
bile aad open ohysiognomY renders very per-
fectly, in. these few minutes, this three-fold
air Of the Queen, the mother and the exilo.
The Prince Of Asturias 's nice boy, lively
and sharp, trough some may say just the re-
verse Of hlm. he wears gray paetot, and
hat and necktie. He is tel years old. Happy
age which laughs at exile and the other misc
r1es Of lie. Has he not his toys his armies
Of leaden soldiers. and quite people Of wood
en- and plsteb ,ard man. He seems to like
Paris, and believes, perhaps, that his mother
has made d pleasure trip to the capital of
France.
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