The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-05-06
ALBERT EDWARD AT HOME.
Daily Routine of the Life of the Prince
of Wales-LOOks Like a Farmer.
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Two distinct sets are invited to the Prince
of Wales's country seat; one from Friday
to Monday and one from Monday or Tues
day to Friday, the former generally in
Guiding a bishop, dean or canon for the
Sunday service, two or three eminent
statesmen, and a sprinkling of musical, lit
erary and artistic celebrities.
You have found carriages and luggage
vans awaiting what is known as the royal
train''-a special run just when the Prince
is in residence-and you and your fellow
visitors have driven up to the principal en-
trance.
There you alight and are ushered by the
footmen into a spacious hall or salon, where
you are received with the distinguished
grace and courtesy for which your royal
host and hostess are so justly celebrated.
You nave only time for a rapid glance at
the massive oak carving and valuable paint
ings Chief Of which is one portraying the
family at afternoon tea, by Zichy) before
you find yourself being conducted to the
handsome suite of apartments you will oc-
cupy during your visit.
A cup of tea and some light refreshment
and the dinner hour being 1880 it is time TO
prepare. If you have not been here before
let me give you a word of warning or you
will commit the dreadful sin of unpunc-
tuality.
Every clock on the place. from the loud
voiced one over the stables TO the tiniest
of continental masterpieces, is kept half an
hour fast.
The ringing out of the hour thirty min
utes before you expect 1t is startling in the
extreme. and your maid or man has a bad
time of 1t until you discover the dis
At last. however. you are ready. and in
due time find yourself amid the company
in the grand dining saloon, where dinner
is served in state, although not with the
frigid formality one is inclined to expect.
81, GA certain degree rec OF OF nervousness oScasioa h must s, be
with royalty, but your host and hostess are
so extremely affable and have such a happy
gift of putting people at their ease that you
insensibly forget their august position. and
find yourself chatting with comfort and en-
joyment. Il
The tables are oblong. the Prince and
Princess facing each other at the center.
The floor. as are most OF them, is OF pol
ished oak.
may be music-the ladies of the family are
all good neutrality-suspicious. tableau wants
do not lie in these directions. or after you
have enjoyed them for a sufficient time,
you have the choice Of using the billiard
In the morning you will find breakfast
served at 9 o'clock in the dining saloon.
Generally raMsVet t:ak see theirs In their r private
apartments there is no formality. and You
do not feel bound to the punctuality imper-
atVe Wnen you meet tneH roya1 Nigh
nesSeS.
Perhaps you have letters to write, and I
may as well here remark that the postal
arrar yements are irst-rate. There is a
postohice inside the house, which is also a
money order Office
Three deliveries per day come in that
way, while mounted men meet the trains
at Woiferton Station. There Is also tele-
graphic communication with Central Lon
don, Kings Lynn and Marlborough House,
and telephone to Wolferton Station, the
stud farm. agents, baflfn, etc.
The Princes morning room Is a room
plainly and usefully fitted furnished