Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-04-25

An EngliAh mans Views OF Her Per-
sOnaI, Family and Social Life.

| An EngiiAh mans Views OF Her Per
| sonal, Family and Social Life.
From an occasonai Correspondent Of N. T. Tribune.
| LONDON, April 7.-All the time that can be
spared from the discussion Of dynamite IL
devoted to that lofty subject, the loneliness OF
the Queen. Society stands; or processes to
stand, aghast at the isolation in which our Sow
ereien Lady is left by the death OF her personal
attendant, John Brown. esq. His position was
incomparably greater than that of either Bloom
field or Knighton, the pages OF his sainted
Majesty King George the Fourth. Enough,
| however. has been said or written concerning
| JOhn brown, who was good servant and hand
somely rewarded. A far more interesting ques-
ton is that Of the Queens future. Her utter
| loneliness ls condition which she owes entirely
to herself, or rather to the advisers in
whom she trusted She has. just as MIR. Abra-
lived everybody she could look up to-" the
| Duchess OF Kent her dOmineering mother
Leopold OF Belgium, Lord Melbourne, Stock
mar, the Duke Of Wellington, the Prince Con-
| sort, and. must it be added, John Brown. She
has not a friend in the would, and much senti-
mentalism is talked just now on this subject. I
confess that in cOmman with a few others who
| know the ms and outs OF the Royal existence am
very unsympathetic upon this point. Poetic
twaddlers talk OF the throne being like lonely
Alpine peak high above the world, cold and soil
| tary. To me it seems that it is much the same
| with sovereign as with an enormously rich
man. Ii ne choose to consider every mans hand
| against him. or eager to find Its way into his
pocket. he will be solitary indeed. And why
not? 1.-THE parsonage does nothing to make you
! love him, and. and does not give you anything.
why In the name Of common sense should you
love him and waste your time upon him?
10 estimate fairly the character Of the Queen
| and clearly understand her habits, thoughts and
position, it should be distinctly kept in view
that the Royal family including the Queen, Is
not English at all, but entirely German in ideas
sympathies, and whole mass Of childish tradi-
ton and prejudice concerning etiquette and
| are already aware that the home language of
the Royal family is German, and that not one of
the Princes and Prncesses can speak English
Without German accent. very strong in the
Prince OF Wales and the Duke OF Edinburgh
This, to Englishmen, Is a ridiculous short
coming, except to a few fashionable imbe-
Giles who actually employ the cultural
German or" in imitation of Royalty. A for
eign accent in man who will one day be
King Of England is absurd enough, but is not
half 80 much to be regretted as the intensely
German mode Of thinking, which affects the
Queen quite as powerfully as her children. It
is not difficult to see how Her Majesty has be-
come separated by great gulf from her sub
of despotlc sovereigns of loving servants better
than loyal advisers, adherents and friends. 1t is
vice of rulers to love. as far as they love any
body, their personal servants, their valets their
Iackeys, their BARRIERS and such like. The differ
ence In rank Is so vast that it Is thought there Is
little danger of the mere creature forgetting IT.
self and asserting its individuality. In
fact, however, Olivier LIE Daim and John
Brown had very great power. Thanks tomodern
and liberal institutions. the dislike of the lat
ter was not fatal except to few poor souls who
can only breathe freely In the atmosphere of
court; but soverelgns gradually weaken the
allegiance of those on whose support they
count by interposing common servant between
them as kind of moral and if necessary, mate.
rial buffer. When sovereign shuts herself I'D
year after year at the Isle Of Wight or in the
Highlands with confidential servant, an ordi-
nary gie, the Venetian ogarchy' as Disrael
called the English nobility. naturally take UNI
bragg, and complain, not without reason,
that the Queen who finds levee or draw
lng-room, state concert or ball, a ire
nendous effort can travel many miles over the
Highlands to be present at the wedding Of
some insignificant Scotch serving man or wo-
man. -
The German idea of sovereignty was early i'm
planted In the Queen. Her father was a kind
OF idiot with special tendency toward military
drill and uniform. Her mother of the house Of
Leiningen had been first married to the Prince
| or HOhenlohe-Langenburg and had children,
which explains how Prince Victor of HOhelohe
better known as Count Gieichen, is her nephew
Ihls amlable gentleman by the way is an ad-
| mfrable In the Royal Navy and clever draugbts-
man and sculptor. The Queens mother was
decidedly clever woman, very masterful and ag-
gressive. She easily Outlived both her husbands
was fully impressed with her dignity as mother Of
the heir apparent to the English throne and lived
at daggers drawn with William the Fourth. on
whom she looked with a contempt which was
| richly merited for he was quite as imbece rs the
Duke of Kent without being 80 respectable
Intellect and decency did not go together among
the children of George the Third; but idiocy
and indecency were combined in. at least. the
Duke OF Clarence, afterward William the Fourth
CHARLES Greyille, the 'Gruncher." has told us
that the Duke OF York, whose whole life was
scandal, was the only one of the Royal Princes
who possessed the manners of an English gentle
man. and 1t Is significant that not one of our pres
ent princes wears the title of York Kent or Clar-
ence. Grevie has also told us of the Indignation
of old William at the seclusiOn in which the
Duchess Of Kent kept the Princess Victoria
This secluson from court full of the kings
illegitimate children was perhaps wisely MAIN
tanned, but it did not prevent the Queens early
| fomance-the ElphinstOne affair, before Prince
Albert time--and her jealousy of the latter,
which led to the cruel treatment of the ,infortu-
| nate Lady Flora Hastings. In truth, Victoria
was kept entirely in leading strings, and Ger
man leading strings, until the death of her hus-
| band. At first it was the Duchess Of Kent, then
Leopold of Belgium and Stockmar, and next the
Prince Consort, who relieved her OF the trouble
OF thinking on political subjects.
was too young at the time to know much of
the Prince Consort, but a relative Of mine, in
whose Judgment have very great confidence.
tells me that the Prince was simply q 'pragmat-
ica German schoolmaster." Instead Of listening
to what Englishmen who knew their country
had to say, this conceited foreign prig laid down
the law in the dulest talk that can be imagined.
Wit or humor found no resting place in a dull
methodic brain crowded with half truths and
dreary formulas. The English mobiles whom he
had the insolence to treat with remote hauteur
felt toward him a mixture of hatred and con-
tempt. He said one stupid thing and did seve-
raj which settled his place in the English mind.
His observation that in country like England
constitutional government Is on it's trial, ;" his
interference in the dispatch-box matter and his
attempt to oterrule Lord Palmerston decided
English opinion in spite of the army OF syco-
plants who lifted their voices from South Ken
sngtOn in solemn hymns Of praise
There can be no doubt that the Queen felt her
loss far more acutely than wives generally do
the death ut their husbands. She was left alb
sOlutely alone, for the German division had
completely segregated her from her natural
friends. 1t is absolutely certain that except to
John Brown and Lord BeacOnsleld she has
never spoken unreservedIy to any person since
Albert's death. She found herself left alone In
her despair, and she remained alone. Her hus-