The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-03-08
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Interesting Facts About the Prince of Wales
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Interesting Facts About the Prince of Wales
and His Family.
Life at Sandringham is very simple, says
Lady Elizabeth Hilary in The Ladies' Home
Journal for March, The Prince breakfasts
with his sons and any male members of the
royal family who may be there; the Princess
breakfasts in her private apartment, while the
young princesses break their fast in an old
fashioned room still known as the school-room.
When this meal is over they come down to say
good-morning to their father, and are usually
accompanied by group of pet dogs. The
gentlemen go out shooting or riding, while the
ladies in the house amuse themselves with books
and papers, and later in the day are joined by
the Princess. Luncheon brings all together,
and this informal meal is, when the season will
permit, served in a tent put up in the woods
near where the mighty hunters are. The
Princess leads the procession going to this in a
smart yellow cart drawn by the plumpest of
ponies, driving herself and one of her lady
guests. She is, by-the-by, an extremely good
whip. Luncheon over, the ladies return to
Sandringham House, everybody meeting again
at five o'clock tea, and dinner being served in
the dining-room at about halr-past eight o'clock.
The Prince and Princess dine with their guests,
the Princess sitting in the centre of one side of
the table, while the Prince is exactly opposite
When dessert is served piper plays the bag
pipes in the corridor outside, in veritable High
land style, that is, pacing backward and for
ward.
The daughters of the Princess of Wales are
sensibly educated They know how to sew SO
well that they can make their own gowns, and
their knowledge of every art taught them is
thorough. They can go into the kitchen and
cookbook we'll; they understand the art of
bread-making, and if they were ever thrown
upon their own resources would be able to take
care of themselves And this has been done
not only as an example to other mothers In the
kingdom, but because her Royal Hghness
thought 1t right for her daughters. wonder
how many of the daughters Of American gen.
tlewoman could make butter, sew, paint, are
good musicians, have a knowledge of sculp-
ture, and can read and speak three or four
languages? And yet this is true of the daugh-
ters Of the Princess of Wales, who was herself,
while thoroughly educated, taught all the in
dustries that would be part Of the knowledge
OF a daughter OF ordinary gentlefolk. Sweet
faced, healthy-looking girls, they are always
at their books and with pencil and needle In
way that would shame the daughter of many
tradesman who ought to thoroughly under
stand everything that is really woman's work.
Though the Princess of Wales Is very simple
In her attire at her home and when in the coun-
try, she yet thoroughly understands the art of
magnificent dressing when 1t is required. She
has taught women all over the world the beauty
OF simplicity, and the assumption of cottons has
become more and more general every year be-
cause she approves Of them. Very fond of
both walking and driving, it is not marvellous
that the Princess has retained her beautiful
complexion, and that, with her artistic knowl-
edge, she is counted the best-dressed woman in
England Simplicity is the keynote to her
attire, and 1t is by her influence that the we'll
made cloth gown and the small bonnet have re-
tanned their hold so long in the fashionable
world. When she goes yachting simple blue
serge gown, trimmed with white braid, and a
cap on which the name Of the royal yacht is
painted, is the costume fancied by her and her
daughters, and the one that permits them to
sea and the sea air as they wish to do.