Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1877-01-10

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to accompany any guests or the bioo,
I royal who arrive on n visit to Il,
castle This regal hall IS over GO
feet long, and from end to end i
crowded with works Of art Of notabl,
excellence; pictures, mirrors, bronzes
carios ofone sort and another alm9st
without end Jossel each other thick.
ly; yet amid all these maryels or art.
istic effort one simple piece Of statu.
AIRY stands out with touching effect.
This is q life-iike representation in
/ marble Of the Queen bidding adieu to
her dying consort, who, with his
right hand upiifted, directs t;se. at
iention Of his frantic wife to heaven.
/ iy spheres above. One would think
/ II would give her the blues 10
look AT thls stony story Of her sor-
row; aud look att she must every
time she goes in and out Of her
rooms, for the door to them opens
just in front IT.
The Queens drawing room and
bed room are more simple than those
ofsome &es York ladies / know
The first mentioned Is upholstered in
pale blue satin, the walls hung here
and there with few family port
rats. The books Of the day, tile
magazines, aud when her Majesty
isatthe castle the newspapers are
placed here. In this parlor, break
fast is laid each morning FOR the
Queen and her only unmarried
daughter, the Princess Beatrice.
Luneaaud dinner are served in II
handsome dinhing-room on tie
other side Of the gallery, the most
adornnent Of which are portraits or
the Duke and Duchess Of Edinburgh,
the QnSen being, it Is said most par
ticulariy attached TO her proud and
imperial daughter-inlaw. The bed.
room whore her widowed majesty
sleeps ~ hung with two shades Of
yellow satin, and there Is little
adornment TO 1t in the way Of art
objects But lift were bare Of every
yard of banging, every bit Of furni-
tnre, it would possess such a vision
oflovelinpss over park aud stream,
meadow and lawn from its windows
as would recompense for the lack Of
any mans adornments. It's quito
sufficiently provided with these,
however, audis 4 comfortable, cle-
CANT, small and cosy bedroom.
WHERE PRINCE ALBERT DIED.
Further on, still supposing we are
following the gallery, the privileged
visitor viii fnd the three rooms
which were always occupied at Wind
sOr by the Pr ince Consort, and have
never been used since his death.
Tho faithful servllor who points
them out says that nothing has been
touched in them since the fatal iith
or December, 1861, when the blame
less Prince quilted these scenes Of
earthly glory 10 find, let us hope,
even more delightful ones among
celestial sehres. The Princes hat
and cano stand where he last placed
them; the book he was reading is
open ut the page where h2 left OFT
the bed whore he slept aua Wheroou
he died stands exactly a. it did when
he brtalhed his last; an inscription
on its foot records the date Of his
birth and If his death 70 come dui-
~ into these deserted rooms, and sec
f0r herself that the hand Of some
thoughtless servant has not disturb,
ed any of theAr pious arrangements;
to gaze lblsfiIi on the vacant couch,
the unfinished book: even lit is said
to herself brush away any trace Of
dust which may have fallen within
the hour upon the cherished relies OF
hcrdoad An baud, j. Q dGtE ser~pn-
ously performed rs this exalted
woman aua good wife, each day
when-slj,siG at Windsor. II moy be
that is the report OF these truly wife
Is actiops which could not degrade
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