St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-20


PRINCE OF WALES so US t EN- a tic ally
AS a BENcHER. blac k ened and to
whom so many acts of depravity are inn
puted. Among all those persons who are
so especially ready to write and repeat
stories of his profligacy there is probably
not single one who is personally ac-
Quainted with him or who knows of his
mode of life otherwise than by hearsay.
The best criterion of mans chal acter is
furnished by his home life, and l do not
believe that in all the broad lands of Old
England there exists more happy home
than that of the Prince of Wales at Sand
bingham, in the county of Norfolk. Many
county seats are as luxurious and some more
magnificent, but there is hardly another
where so much comfort is united with
exquisite taste and refinement. The visi-
tor, on arriving at the Wolyerton railway
station on Saturday afternoon from London,
finds variety of conveyances, char a-baEcS
and phaetons, together with light feurgons
for the luggage, and the distance between
the depot and Sandringham is quickly COW
cred. On alighting one is received in the
hall by the royal host and hostess, and after
having been taken off to
THE PRINCESS ROOM
on the ground floor for refreshment after
the journey. in the shape of tea, etc., the
ham, takes you upstairs himself to your
room, and after seeing that you have every
thing you require rings the bell and orders
one of the servants to attend specially to
your wants and comforts. Then with
kindly nod and an ''au revoir'' he leaves
you to dress for dinner The black breeckes
and silk stockings formerly de rigueur at
ROYAL dinners are now thing or the past,
and having pinned on the pretty button
hole which you find on your dressing-table,
and dOnned any decorations or wal medals
1.-THE latter worn in miniature Oh these occa-
sions) which you may possess, you make
your way down stairs to the drawing-roolnS.
There you will probably find Col. Teesdale
wearing the equerry's coat of dark blue
with gold buttons. He has been with the
prince for close upon thirty years, and New
Workers of 1860 will remember well the
dashing young officer who had just won his
Victoria cross and Order Of the Bath by his
splendid conduct at the siege of Kars. The
Countess of Macclesfeld, lady-in-wating to
the princess, will also probably have come
downstairs. This is the good lady who
when the Princess of Wales was prema-
turely confined of
HER ELDEST SON,
in 1864 at Frogmore, after a skating party,
had sufficient presence OF mind to perform
the offices of accoucheur and nurse, both of
whom arrived after the trouble was over.
AS soon as the guests are assembled the
prince and princess make their appearance
and dinner is Immediately announced. The
host and hostess sit facing each other at
table; the dinner is eXquisitely cooked, for
the prince is great gourmet. 1t. however,
rarely lasts more than an hour, for his
royal highness detests long dinners and
overloaded menus. Those who pay atten-
ton to such trifies may be interested to
know that knives are eschewed, two
forks being used instead for eating fish.
The gentlemen remain for short time over
their wine after the ladies have retired and
then join the party in the drawlng-roomS,
where round games of cards are frequently
INDUCED in. At about midnight the ladies
retire to rest and the men to gossip with
prince in the smoking-room or round the
billiard table. The next morning Sunday
the prince and princess, who during all the
twenty-three years of their married life
have always occupied the same bedroom,
breakfast together in private, whilst the
majority of the guests breakfast down
stairs at a number of small tables in the
morning room. Shortly before II the
prince
MAKES HIS APPEARANCE
in the hall and chaffingly orders everyone
nolens volens to get ready for church. and
after seeing the whole party off brings up
the rear guard himself on the lockout for
stragglers. The church is on the estate
and about ten minutes walk from the
house 1t is small, but exceedingly pretty,
and the choral service is both short and
simple. On the way home the prince will
ask you to inspect his menagerie of all
kinds of wonderful pet animals, from
crocodiles down to hedgehogs, whilst
the princess will insist on your adnliring
the kennels where she keeps her pet dogs,
over eighty in number and Of all breeds.
After a heavy luncheon at 2 o'clock his
royal highness will invite You to walk over
with him to his home farm to see some
magnificent prize cattle, of which he is
very proud. On returning to his hall he
will probably show you over the house, in
Guiding the ballroom. with all its magnii-
cent Indian trophies, and the plainly fur
nished rooms where the three young prin-
cesses reside with their two governesses.
The stables, which cost the prince over
$50. 900 per annum, are simply perfection.
AS you are about to
LEAVE FOR LONDON
early the next morning, you take leave of
your host and hostess before retiring to
rest, and will probably find on your dress
ing table autograph portraits of themselves
and of their children as mementoes of your
visit to Sandringham Hall. When you see
the man thus surrounded by group of
merry and affectionate children. in all of
whose sports he joins in the most boysh
manner, all the bad stories you have heard
of the selfish and heartless llbertine vanish
from your memory. IT, as it is said, chill
dren are the best judges of character, the
Prince must indeed be a good fellow, for it
is only necessary. to hear with what
affection all his numerous nephews
and nieces talk of ''Uncle Ber-
tie." | do not think there are many
couples who, after twentythree years Of
marriage, are still so devoted to one another
as the prince and princess. Their intimate
and affectionate relations to one another
constitute the best refutation to all the
calumnies which have been circulated about
him. Many OF. these stories owe their
origin to ladies who desire to have their
names coupled with his. 1t is perfectly
impossible for anyone who has not wit
messed it to conceive the absolutely fragrant
manner in which ladies of even
THE HIGHEST RANK
set their caps at him and hunt him down
like quarry. At the balls, garden parties
and race meetings, etc., the sole aim of the
fair sex present is to have their presence
noticed by the heir apparent, who, apart
from his position as the autocrat of English
society, with power to make or damn a
persons social position, possesses the most
winning and gracious manner imaginable
He has the reputation of being an admirer
OF the fair sex, and hence they put forth
all their charms and wiles in attempts to
obtain the privilege Of basking in the royal
sunshine. Nothing is more amusing than
to watch one of the fair danes. with
cheeks flushed and eyes charged with mag
netism, bending forward to the prince
No harm is meant, but they are prepared
to go many lengths to obtain his special
friendship-that is to be admitted to the
charmed inner circle of Marlborough house.
The prince. who is the essence of courtesy