The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-11-18

OlutT royal TeSlOenCeS IN ulI1eTenl parts
Of the country. Sandrlngham house,
in Norfolk, is his own private property
The prince of Wales has an appropria-
tion from parliament every year for
maintaining these palaces, and the sal
aries Of all his attendants are paid
by the government, except the private
servants of his household. Under the
marriage contract, which was ratified
by parliament, IL the prince of Wales
should die his widow would continue
to receive an annuity of 100000 a year
and a house to live in.
Upon his marriage and during his
lifetime the late prince consort receiv-
cd an annuity of 100000 in addition to
the allowances made the queen, his
wife.
WORLDS RICHEST WOMAN.
Queen Victoria would undoubtedly be
the richest woman in the world even il
she should lose her throne and oil her
official revenues. She was born in pow
erty. Her father was compelled to bor-
row money from an alderman of the
city of London, whom he was fortunate
enough to meet in Paris, jn order to
pay his expenses from that city to Lon
don a few weeks before her birth, and
until his death was pensioner, not of
parliament, but upon the bounty of
the king.
Victoria herself occupied that mort-
Tying relation until she became queen
of England, and when she was called
to the throne she did not have a dol
lars worth of property in her own
right. Nevertheless her wealth is now
estimated by the hundreds OF millions
of dollars. Like the duke of Edinburgh,
she never spends a cent of her per-
sonal income, but allows it to accumu-
late and has it invested in the most
remunerative kind of property.
She has twelve palaces. Two of them
- Balmoral, in Scotland, and Osborne
on the Isle of Wight-,are her personal
property, and she occupies them more
than any Of the official palaces. Buck
| ingham palace, in London, IS always
| kept ready for her use, and she goes
there to preside at official functions,
| hut has a prejudice against the place
and has not spent 4 night under it's
| roof for many years. She lives at
! Windsor most of the time during the
| sessions of parliament.
There are seven or eight other pal
| aces maintained at public expense and
occupied by her sons, daughters and
| other relatives and pensioners. AT
! Hampton court, the largest and most
beautiful of all the British palaces,
| which was built by Cardinal Woolsey,
occupied by Henry VIII, and the scene
of the gayest events in the lives of
! Charles I. and Charles H., there are
forty-hve families living on the royal
bounty, mostly retired clergymen and
military veterans and the widows and
orphans of similar public servants. The
palaces at KensingtOn, Kew and Rich
mond are also filled with pensioners,
and it costs $4,000 year to maintain
! them.
Her majesty has a train of railway
cars which is never used by anv one
else. and it costs the government sever
al hundred dollars every time she traV-
els between Windsor and London, a
distance Of twenty-four miles. There
are four royal yachts-the Victoria and
Albert, 2.470 tons; the Osborne, 1850
tons; the Alberta, $40 tons. and the
Flfin, 1913 tOns-which she seldom uses,
but it cost E34 900 last year to maintain
them.
There are also twenty-five state car
riages and 22O horses and ponies kept
for the use of her majesty and her
household, with large number and
great variety of road carriages and
other vehicles. The queen uses an or
dinary basket phaeton, drawn by a
couple of gentle ponies, when she rides
for air and exercise in the parks that
| surround her castles at Windsor in
Scotland and on the Isle of Wight.
Sometimes she uses a Victoria. When
she gees TO London she invariably
drives in a plain landau, painted dark
brown, with red lines. In her stable
are ten matchless cream -colored stall
lions and ten splendid blacks, which
are reserved for ceremonial occasions
and never haul anybody less than a
king or queen.
OTHER ROYAL STIPENDS.
Thus it will be seen that although a
woman Of economical habits her mai
esty is a very expensive luxury for her
taxpayers, but not more so than some
of the other rulers of Europe. The
president of the United States receives
less pay in comparison with the i'm
pOrtance Of his Office than any other
man in the world. The presideI cy of
France receives salary of 100000
francs, which is equivalent to 1926, 900
and a similar amount for the expenses
Of his household The emperor of Aus
tria has an allowance Of $3,S75000: the
king of Sweden and Norway, $575, 900;
. King Leopold, of Belgium, $500, 900; the
king of Holland, $1,000 the king OF
: Greece, $260000; the king of Italy
S2,S5S,0 600. The emperor of Russia, be-
ing an autocrat, can do what he pleas
es with the revenues of the empire, but
the expenses of the court are about
, $4,000 900 a year.