Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1883-03-02
Victoria.
IRREGULARITIES OF THE DISPOSITION OF
ENGLAND's QUEEN.

IRREGULARITIES OF THE DISPOS ITION OF
ENGLAND's QUEEN.
The obstinacy of the Queen is proven by
the open. persistent tavoritlsm shown to
her ''gillie" or valet, John Brown. lncorf1-
prehensible and meaningless it goads al
most to madness her immediate encourage.
and every open or tacit opposition only
causes it to be more manifest. That proud
est of proud women has been made by a
preconcerted plan to see this servant of
hers in the IN 'st degrading state of drunk
enness almost at her very feet, and yet.
| with an infatuati0n stronger even than
f-mininity. her manner to him remained
UNCHANGED. and she made no sign that
could give a clue to her secr-t thoughts
Ladies in waiting of exalted rank have re-
b.. LIED openly against the breach of Ell
quette his familiarity has created, and re-
| fused to be made party to 1t, but, snub-
bed by them. he was only the more
graclnusly treated by his royal mistress
He follows her like shadow from palace
to palace, in public and in private, behind
her chair at meals, in the rumble of her
carriage in her drives. bending over to ex-
change few words. and calmly possessing
| himself of her e ld-glass to inspect some
distant manHlvre at review.
The q leen does not slacken the reins on
her sons necks when they marry she or
ders, directs, sways them at home ard
| abroad. and scOrns no minute of detail,
| just as she allnws no impulse of independ
-ncp. AT st. Petersburg during some fetes.
the PilLce OF Wales ttlegraphtd to ask his
mother whether he might attend the court
ball on Sunday. The answer was wired
back. 'Decidedly no." and he abstaiDed
IL was said, however. that he sought more
mysterious and unsabbathical compensa
| tiOns.
| The q leen, faithful to her traditions OF
interference, rules The tastes, Of all heI
other children to this present dav. Sh :
left Abergeldie Castle to the P ince OF
till she found out that the apartment
were small and uncomfortable. and he
must relinqulsh 1t fol another Highland
place; but the discovery WAS providentla'
w not made till the Prince had spent ego,
900 in improving he operty. Claremont
after her MaJesty's designs. has been re-
decorated for her last daughter-in-law. ant
it is not unlikely that christening bell.
!, will soon ring ont from there a joyous
chime. She has also set apart and super
intended the arrangement of suit Of
rooms, not by any means ar extensive one
for the Duke and Duchess of Albany al
Windsor Castle.
At Osborne and Balmoral the Queen il
jealous almost to selfshness of the priva
cv of her grounds. Not even in her alb
sence is an alien foot permitted to TREAD
the sacred preclrc's; severe rebuke from
ans,ere gamekespers overtakes the unwar,
pedestrian who wanders even in the re
hottest glades of the royal demesne. NJ
road crosses it, no right Of wav is conced
ed; so imperiOus is her wish for utter ne
clnsion that IN Difference to her openly-ex
pressed desire, no railroad is constructed
within hail of BAlmnral. When the Min
listers of State are hastily summoned tt
council after q long and weary journey
they have still fatieuing drive to EN-
counter before reaching the royal presence
To men no longer Young tried hy sever,
mental exertions and much business, this
is serious drawback, but one which th,