Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-08-18


HISTORIC PALACE.
An Edinburgh letter TO the Boston Transcript
has the following: Although the queen had visited
Edinburgh before she did not reside In the palace
OF HolyroOd until August, 1850 She had, mean
while, selected the rooms to be fitted up for Prince
Albert herself and tnelr children and they have
manned ever since very much as they were first pre-
pared. The suite selected was that corresponding
to those OF Mary stuart and Darnley in the north
west corner the queens being in the southwest
Mary Stuart was at supper with Rizzio the night
he was torn away and stabbed 10 death has its
counterpart In similar little tOwer-room, OPEN
ing into splendid room known as Prince Albert's
drawing-roOm. According to the ground plan OF
these towers, which Is the same, this drawing
room corresponds with Queen Mary's bed-chamber
in the other corner and there are two OF these
little rooms, as there Two towers lanking each
side OF the room. Mary stuart used her other
bert's drawing-room they are mainly coziIy ntted
up with modern luxury.
The FIRST room OF the suite is called the queens
breakfast-room, and Is by no means the small
apartment which usually does duty as breakfast
room. Most Of the rooms In this suite are large
and the breakfast-room is none or the smallest.
The walls are paneled with oak halfway up and
the mantel-piece Is also OF oak, finely carved The
prevailing unts In the furniture and wall decora-
lions green and gOld and the furniture Is thor
oughly modern and comfortable. Next this is a
little square oak-paneled room, apparently used
for nothing at all. The only remarkable thing
about 1t is very ornamental root, representing
a blue DOME studded with silver stars Next
this is Prince AlbertS dressing rOOm-a fine hand.
some apartment with some superb panel paintings
II is furnished In green and gold. Prince Alberts
drawing-rOOm is one OF the most splendid In the
suite. 1t is nearly fifty feet long, and here are
the Two little tower rooms opening into it. II has
an exquistely worked ceiling, with the monogram
OF victoria and Albert inserted In numerous panels
and handsome furniture and hangtngs OF red and
gold. The queen has two drawing-rOOm besides
q throne-room. Her bedroom Is hung with artIstic
tapestry, and over the mantel Is q modern painting
OF Venus rising from the sea. The state drawing
Charleses, and the cipher &c. r." is seen in many
places on the walls and ceilings, especially In the
queens drawing-room. The oak paneiling in this
green, with the monogram OF Victoria and Albert
the Scotch emblem OF the thistle the rose and the
shamrock, is much admired. Besides this room,
there Is what is called the evening drawing ROOM
which was the queens favOrtte apartment This
is In red and gold, too, but the walls are heavy
with tapestry brought from Buckingham Palace,
and there are other reminders OF her English home
The throne-roOm is the most impOsing.of the
SUITE and here the queen held her levees. It's
proportions are very nearly sixty by thirty. 1t is
hung with crimson damask, and the royal arms
are plentifully besprinkled ABOUT At one end is
a throne. which was made for George Nv when he
portrait OF the First Gentleman in Europe In High.
land costume, and painted by Sir David Wilkie
hangs on the wall, beside numerous HanOverian
portraits There Is but one stuart represented
among these portraits. and that Is Mary, the wife
OF William Of Orange.
There are numerous other rooms fitted IN and
occupied by the queens children and suite, but
they contain nothing OF note. In fact, such graft
ing as there is Of modern splendor upon the ven-
cradle pile OF HOlyrOOd Is hardly harmoniOuS-and
nothing but its intrinsic beauty and cost redeems
it--but the mere filling up OF the ancient rooms
with modern furniture, such the case is In these
minor rooms, is painfully homogeneous
Although the Duke OF Hamilton is by inherit
ance keeper OF the palace the actual charge OF it
Scotland is directed by a baille. The palace is in
perfect preservation, more than c4O,OOO having
been spent ON IL during The century, but the abbey
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the latter part OF the eighteenth century, and
grass grows and lichens flourish In the picturesque
Chapel Royal, where Mary Stuart married Darniey
on the summer morning more than three hundred
years ago.