St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-05-20
QUEENS COTTAGE. KEW

ing been born in 1913. She was married in
1862 to Prince Louis of Hesse-D armstadt,
and had two sons and five daughters. She
died many years ago. The next child was a
boy, who was named Alfred and created Duke
of Edinburgh. He married in 1874 the
Grand Duchess Maria, only daughter of the
Emperor Alexander IL of Russia. The fifth
child was a girl, Helena, married in 1866 to
Prince Christian of Schleswig-H olstein-
neutrality-suspicious. She had three
sons, one OF whom died, and two daughters.
The next child was Princess Louise. She was
born in 1S4S. In 1871 she created a sensation
by 'sleaping the PALE and marrying one of
her mothers subjects, the young man called
by courtesy the Marquis of Lorne, the eldest
son Of the Duke of Argyle. Then came
Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught born in
1850. He married the Princess Louise,
daughter of Prince Frederick of Prussia,
who has borne him several children. The
next child was the unfortunate Leopold, Duke
of Albany, born in 1858. who, afflicted with
a mysterious and incurabie ailment, died at :
Cannes, France, some years ago, leaving a
widow, the Princess Helene, daughter of the
Prince Of Waldeck, and one child a daughter
The ninth and youngest child is the Princess
Beatrice, long the inseparable companion of
her aged mother, but who was married eight
: years ago to Prince Henry Of Battenberg.
Victoria has found queenhood very
profitable calling. During the ffty-seven
years she has been on the throne the British
people have given her under the name of
civil list expenditures, S110, 1875, coo. In addi-
ton to this vast total S49, 676,765 has been
al 60, 80
royal residences, stables and the like. The
total direct expenditures of the Queen
alone is S154, 951, 765, or over 81, 100000 per
annum. There is at this date an annual
expenditure in addition for other members of
the royal family of 81, 1000. The thrifty
old lady, who has had this vast income at her
disposal, has taken care to "make hay while
the sun Shines OF course the money has
been voted to enable her to keep up the orna-
mental state considered necessary for royal
position. But it is just this she does not do.
A peculiar fact in illustration of her prudence
is seen in the probating of her husbands
will. He is known to have left a large for
tune. The English Treasury has never been
increased by the legacy tax due from the
estate of "Albert the Good" who should have
been named Albert the Prudent. 1t has
been commonly considered in Great Britain
as matter Of good policy for the monarch
not to be the owner of private estates. Vic
toria, besides valuable continental property,
is the owner of three estates in the United
Kingdom. They are Balmoral in Aberdeen
shire, Scotland; Osborne House, Isle of
Wight, Hampshire, and Claremont, Surrey.
These embrace 1851 acres, with rental value
per year of S27,s 05. At twenty years pur-
chase that would be $3.50, 100. In fact, they
are worth double that amount.
To the Queens credit, however, be it said,
she has always earnestly striyen to earn her
salary. She meets every demand made upon
her to the letter, and people who have been
led to think chat she does no official work
would be very much surprised at the amount
of correspondence she gets through with
every morning. The Queen occupies the en-
tire time from breakfast to luncheon in writ
ing and in looking over documents, and af-
fixing her signature to them, and no one who
has seen the dispatch boxes that arrive at
Windsor, Osborne or Balmoral daily can
doubt the duties that devolve upon the SOW
ereign. These duties are in every case con-
scientiously filled, for it is>not a mere ques-
ton of affixing the signature of Victoria,