Arizona weekly citizen., 1893-03-18
QUEEN .VICT0RIA'S HOME.
Arrangement of the Apartments
 at Windsor Castle.
Rooms Into Which None But Members of the Royal Family Are Permitted
 to Enter-RIeh and Costly
 Decorat ions.

Decorat ions.
 The state dining-room at Windsor castle is, according to the Pall Mall Gazette. very fine apartment in the Prince of Wales tower. It was redec- orated 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 Welby Pugin. The doors are ornanented with most exquisite Chippendale work. In the center of the north window, which looks out on the north terrace, the Home park, and Eton college, is dis played massive gold punch-bowl, which was designed by Flaxman for the prince regent. The ladle. which is a very fine piece of work, is made in the form of a trochus shell. The whole cost two thousand guineas. This room was nearly destroyed by fire in 1853, and again by water in 1891. It is only used on grand occasions, when the queens party is over sixteen When it is under that number tie queen prefers to dine in the oakrOom. 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 dining-room St. Georges hall is used.
 The three drawing-rooms are con- nected with the dining-room, with the corridor, and with each other by fold ing doors, and all the doors are dec- orated with the same unique Chippen- dale work The three drawing-rooms face the east and look down on the splendid east terrace and gardens over the broad expanse of the Home Park towards Datchet, Old Windsor. The crimson drawing-rOom is next to the dining-room. It is decorated and up- holstered in crimson satin brocade, which, together with the richness of the embellishments and the wealth of gliding with which it is adorned, gives this. room a very gorgeous appearance. Superb carvings, the finest ormolu work, and the most eXquisitely inlaid cabinets line the wall, and conspicuous ly placed in one of the windows is a large malachite vase, which, like the one in the grand reception-room, was gwen to the queen by Czar 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 I do not by any means mean eau de Nil, 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 eXtravagant tastes of George ", and the sight of the innumerable lovely pieces, delicately nodded and colored. is enough to make collector mad with envy. However, as a rule, collectors have not .Inucu ,iuIe 1u t-.aIlI.44v ,vIy closely, for 1t is only on rare occasions, such as a state dinner party or by special favor. that her majesty's sub iects are admitted into the green draw ing-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 numerous portraits of the royal family, while number of exuuisitely worked cabinets and ta- bIe beautifully inlaid with FlOrentine mosaic in the form of flowers and fruit are among the principal ornaments. It is in the white drawing-roOm that the queen holds private investitures of the knightly orders, when few ministers are summoned from town 1T 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 crimson and green rooms to the same destination.
 The drawing-rooms were cleaned not long ago and the furniture -earranged but otherwise they have been left un- touched. The hangings and stuffs with winch the chairs and sofas are covered might with advantage be altered, for though they are very rich the style is old fashioned, belonging to the early period of her ajesty's reign, and shows only too clearly and somewhat plainly to the eye the advances that art has made since then. The queen, however, is very conservative in-her tastes, and she likes the old fashions. One of the curiosities of this portion of tie private apartments is Mozart's old haTpsichord which stands in one of the tall win dows which overlook the private gar den. It is a quaint, rather shabby looking instrument with a double set of keys. These fine rooms are all con- nected by the grand corridor. It is very handsomely decorated, the ceiling in gold and cream and the walls in sage green and gold. It is hung on one side with pictures of the events in this reign from Willzie's First Council'' to LintOn's Marriage of the Duke of AL bany." The other side is lined with portraits of statesmen, including Ange- lis picture of Lord BeacOnsfeld. Among the numerous curiOsities are some magnificent china, bust of Gen. Gordon, and his pocket Bible in glass case.
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