The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-08-15
THE ROYAL FAMILY OF ENGLAND.
[The Galaxy.1

There is general movement among the
loungers in the park, and an unostentatious
carriage with servants in red livery goes slow
ly by. There are two ladies in it, and there
are two little curly-haired dogs on the seat
before them.
The ladies are attired very nearly alike, in
black and white striped silks, the one in a
pink, the other in blue bonnet They are
not so beautiful as rumor would make us be-
leve. They are oval-faeed, high bred looking
women, the one whom the English call " our
princess" being older looking, less blooming
than her sister Dagmar.
The czarovna is like a girlish edition of her
sister, but though her brown eyes have a
deeper luster, her cheek ripper bloom and
her mouth and pretty chin a more piquant
air, there is a sweetness, a gentle dignity, q
grace about Alexandra which make her love-.
Illness more perfect, yet its charm impossible
to describe. She leans forward as the carriage
passes, bows and smiles cordially "Ah, :"
said a lady Of the Queens household to us one
evening, "she is such a real princess !" And
this mention of royalty brings me back to q
twilight hour when from a terrace on the
High street of old Kensington we watched the
royal family returning from Chiswick. Il was
a fete day; the streets were gayly decorated, a
crowd assembled in the terraced gardens,
shop windows, and on the pavement.
The carriages containing royalty rode by
with unusual state, outriders in gay liveries
preceding them. First the christians las
we might say nee Princess Helena fair,
placid-looking young woman in white tulle
hat, and nliddle-aged, soldierly man, in uni
form; then "trap," driven tandem by
hand some young man with \ full, brown
bear', a rosebud in his buttonhole, gay,
debonair manner, (''the duke" he is called,
just as his elder brother is always 'the
prince;) and then a second park carriage,
with bolny young Scotch chieftain in High
land dress, and very pretty, hale, brown
haired young woman in pink dress, with
some sprays of white blossoms, gathered
doubtless at the fete, in her hands.
A shout goes up as they drive by, the
good-looking young Highlander dofing his
Scotch cap airily, the young princess with
the wistful eyes smiling gently. These are
the Lornes, about whose domestic life rumor
is ever busy. But it is said, on good au-
thority, that they are fairly well content with
their somewhat unequal marriage. The
princess is very intellectual and accom-
plished, and is by far the handsomest of the
Q1eens daughters. Her husband has many
friends; he is young and has fine DISPOSE
ton, and, after all, his family is near enough
to the throne to silence contemptuous gossip.
y uSI dS TIE pdIleHCo VI tuo CTU"u Is giving
out, there goes up a cry of "The Prnce"
All what passport to favor is this divine
right of kings and princes When these peo-
pie say 1.-The Prince" it is with an air OF
I" Long live the Kingr' Here come the MARI
liveries and such a carriage
load Of royalty the Princess of Wales and
her sister Dagmar, their white dresses and
pink hats looking pretty in the evening light;
opposite them the Prince of Wales, who, in
spite of rumor and increasing weight, is yet
fine looking. and the tall, broad -shouldered,
good looking Czarovitch; and then comes a
last carriage, out Of which little sleepy
looking children, in brown Holland cloaks |
and straw hats with huttering white |
ribbons, appear to be rolling. There are
in truth three of them on one seat, and oppo- |
site stout, gracious-looking lady, of whom
We remember chiefly her brilliant smile and
pleasant salutation. Ter husband, hand |
,omer in his dark, grand way than any Of the
Iuelpbs, sits beside her. "Those are the |
Tecks, says somebody, earnestly; they are
20 kind and simple" Their home is in Ken
,ington Palace, where the Queen was born,
where she held her first council The Duke
If Cambridge, the Q1een's uncle, rides by,
Unattended, in severely simple way. 1t is
aid that the simplicity Of the "Cambridges
,nnoys her Majesty immensely. The old Duke
letests formality. He is greatly beloved by
Ill the people, especially the army, which he
commands. And thus royalty rides by.