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The Queens Apartments at Windsor
Cestle-The Drawing Rooms.
From the Pail Mil Gnzotte

The Queens Apartments at Windsor
Cestle-The Drawing Rooms.
From the Pail MaH Gazette.
The state dining room at Windsor castle
is very fine apartment in the Prince Of
Wales tower. 1t was redecorated shortly
before the jubilee In gold and white, after a
very tasteful design chosen by Princess
Beatrice. The furniture is of q gothic pat
tern, and is said to have been designed by
Welby Tugin. The doors are ornamented
with most exquisite Chippendale wood. In
the center of the north window, which
looks out on the north terrace, the home
park and Eton College, 10 displayed mas
sive gold punch bowl, which was designed
by Eiaxman for the prince regent
The ladle, which is very fine piece of
work, is made in the form Of a trochus
shell. The whole cost 1900 guinees. This
room was nearly destroyed by fire in 1858
and again by water in 1891. 1t is only used
on grand occasions, when the queens party
Is over sixteen. When il Is under that
number the queen prefers to dine in the
oak room, which looks out on the inner
quadrangle, and contains fine pictures OF
the queens four daughters-in-law. When
the party is too large for the dining room.
st. Georges hall is used. The three draw
ing rooms are connected with the dining
room, with the corridor and with each other
by folding DOORS and all the doors are orna-
mented with the same unique ornamented
Chippendale work The three draw
ing .rooms face the east and look down on
the splendid east terrace and gardens over
the broad expanse of the home park toward
Datchet. Old Windsor. The crimson draw
ing room 10 next TO the dining room. Il ia
decorated and upholstered in crimson satin
brocade, which, together with the richness
of the Embellishments and no
gliding with which 1t is adorned, gives this
room very gorgeous appearance Superb
carvings, the finest ormuru work and the
most exquisitely inlaid cabinets line the
walls, and conspicuously placed in one of
the windows Is q large Inalachite vase.
which, like the one In the grand reception
room, was given to the queen by the Gar
Nicholas of Russia.
The crimson drawing room opens into the
green, which Is similarly decorated, and
furnished in the richest satin brocade but
the prevailing color, as might be expected,
is green. by which do not by any means
mean eau de MI, but green of a somewhat
| crude shade. The principal feature of this
room is the magnificent collection of Sevres
china, which is said to be the finest In the
world. This is another product of the ex-
travagant tastes Of George w., and the
sight Of the innumerable lovely pieces deli
cately nodded and colored, is enough to
make collector mad with envy. How
ever, as a rule, collectors have not much
time TO examine very closely, for it is only
on rare occasions, such as a state dinner
party, or by special favor, that her
majesty's subjects are admitted into the
green drawing room.
The white drawing room is furnished in
crimson and gold damask, with white walls
decorated in an essentially French style
The walls OF this room are hung with num-
erous portraits of the royal family, while a
number OF exquisitely worked cabinets and
table beautifully inlaid with FIorentine
mosaic In the form Of flowers aud fruit are
among the principal ornaments. 1t is in
the white drawing room that the queen
holds private invsstitures of the knightly
orders, when few ministers are summoned
from town il order to form a council for
the occasion. Luncheon is held first in the
dining room. The queen then proceeds by
the corridor to the white drawing room
while the company pass through the GRIM
son and green rooms 70 the same destiua-
ton.
The drawing rooms were cleaned not
very long ago and the furniture reArranged,
but otherwise they have been untouched.
The hauRings aud stuffs with which the
chairs and sofas are covered might with adj
vantage be altered, for though they are
very rich, the style is old-fashioned. be.
longing to the early period Of her maiesty's
reign, and shows only too clearly aud some
what painfully 60 the eve the advances that
art has made since then. The queen, how
ever, il very conservative IN her tastes and
she likes the old fashions One Of the curl
ositiss OF this portion OF tho private apart.
ments IL Moznrt's old barpsichord, which