The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-05-06
QU ZEN VICTOR HOME.
Arrangement OF the Apartments
at Windsor Castle.


Rooms Into which None but members
OF the Royal Family Are Permitted
to Enter Rich and Costly
Deoorat ions.
The state dining at Windsor
castle is, according to the Pail Mall
Gazette, d very fine apartment IN the
Prince Of Wales tower. ! t was redec-
grated shortly before the jubilee In gold
and white, after very tasteful design
chosen by Princess Beatrice. The fur
niture is OF a Gothic pattern, and is
said to have been designed by Wclby
Pngin. The doors are ornanented with
most exquisite Chippendale work Ia
the center Of the north window, which
looks out on the north terrace, the
Home park, and Elton college, is Isl
played a massive gold punch-bowl,
/ which was designed by Flayman for the
/ prince regent. The la1le, which is a
! very fine piece Of work, is made in the
form Of q trochus shell. The whole.
cost two Thousand guineas. This room
was nearly destroyed by FIRE in 1858,
and again by water in 1891. It is only
used on grand occasions, when the
queens party is over sixteen. When 1t
is under that number the queen prefer
to dine in the darkroom, which looks out
on the inner quadrangle, and contains
fine pictures Of the queens four daugh-
ters-in law When the party is too
large for the diningaroorn st. Georges
hall is used.
Tia +1,aa a 30 nj :, - ,.<,1,,,, -
nected with the dining-rooIn, with the
corridor, and with each other by fold
ing doors, and all the doors are dec
GRATED with the same unique Cllippen-
dale work. The three drawing
face the cast and look down on the
splendid cast terrace and gardens over
the broad expanse of the Home Iarls 7
towards Datchet, Old Windsor. Thel
crimson drawing-room is next to the
dlning-roofn. 1t is decorated and up
holstered in crimson satin broeade.
which, together with the richness OF
the embellishments and the wealth cf
gliding with which it is adorned, gives
this room a very gorgeous appearance.
superb carvings, the finest orlnolu
work, and the most exquisitely inlaid
cabinets line the wall, and conspicuous
" placed in one of the windows is q
arge malachite vase, which, like the
me in the grand reception-rooua, was
glven to the queen by Gar Nicholas, OF
2ussia.
The crimson drawing room opens into
he green. which is similarly decorated.
nd furnished in the richest satin
rocace, but the prevailing color, as
alght be expected, is green, by which / !
Q not by any means mean ecu de Nil,
ut green of q somewhat crude shade.
he principal feature CT this room is |
he magnificent collection of Sevres
lima, which is said to be the finest in
ae world. This is another product of =
le extravagant tastes of George w.
nd the sight of the innumerable lovely ,
eces, delicately nodded and colorcd,
enough to make a collector mad with
IVY. However, as a rule, collectors
I've not nucn tune TO examine very
osely, for 1t is only on rare occasions.
eh as a state dinner party or by
ecial favor. that her majesty's sub
ctss1re admitted into the green draw Il
groom.
The white drawing-room is furnished u
crimson and gold damaslS with white
ais decorated in an essentially q
eneh style. The walls of this room
2 hung with numerous portraits of ST
e royal family, while a number of
quisitely worked cabinets and a ta- pc
: beautifully inlaid with Florentine
'saic in the form of flowers and fruit til
; among the principal ornaments. 1t
n the white drawing-room that the m
cen holds private investitures of the
lightly orders, when few ministers q,
summoned from town in order to
IA council for the occasion. .
ncheon is held first in the dining
IN. The queen then proceeds by g.,
corridor to the white drawing-roorn 90
lie the company pass through the
nson and green rooms to the same
tination. ]
he drawing-rooms were cleaned not |
9 ago and the furniture rearranged, /
otherwise they have been left I'M he;
ehed. The hangings and stuffs with r
eh the chairs and sofas are covered chi
hit with advantage be altered, for I
lgh they are very rich the style is mn,
fashioned, belonging to the early n
cd Of her ajesty s reign, and shows o,.y,
too clearly and somewhat plainly 4
le eye the advances that art has a.
e since then. The queen, however, 5 si,''
ny conservative in her tastes, and s 80,
likes the old fashions. One of the go :.
9sities of this portion of tie private I. ~
tments is Mozart's old harpsichord INC
when overlook tba Y,,;vs "a 49, - fine
It is a quaint rather shabby a
ing instrument wit, n double 81 who
eys. These fine rooms are all con cons
I'd by the grand corridor. 1t is mlll
handsomely decorated, the ceiling goat
Id and cream and the walls IN Oh,