The Washington times., 1901-08-11

Parliament, but the privy purse. which
amounts to S550.00o, the King can use as
he pleases. No account is rendered.
Alexandra has an allowance of $50 900,
from which must be paid all Of her ex-
penSes and the salaries of a large number
of retainers required by the Queen She
has reduced the number considerably, but
is paying about so per cent larger salaries
than Queen Victoria allowed, because the
ladies in waiting upon the present Queen
VIII be subjected to many more expenses
IN the way OF wardrobe Queen victoria
was eXacting in many respects, but she
entertained so little and dressed so SIM
ply herself tEat her attendants did not
require elaborate or expensive toilets.
Under the present regime things will be
different and none but ladies' OF wealth
can accept such positions Queen Alexan-
dra has notified her ladies' in waitins. that
their services will be required only at i'm
portant state functions. She will be at
tended regularly by Lady Sufi1eid and
Miss Knollys, who have been her secre-
tarfes for several years. and are intimate
confidential friends, thoroughly acquaint-
ed with her wishes, IDEAS and prefer
ences.
Queen Victoria left large estate In
jewels. stocks, bonds. and landed prop
erty. She owned some of the most
profitable buildings in London, and in
herited from her husband whole blocks
of residences in the fashionable quarter
Of the city. Her holdings were 50 large
that it required a staff of eight or ten
men to look after them. No one knows
what disposition she has made of them,
becaise the will of the sovereign is not
probated and the facts have not leaked
out. 1t is the general impression how
ever, that the estate has been placed in
trust for the perpetual benefit of her
heirs. and the King no doubt gets large
share of t, so that his income will be
increased thereby.
Queen Victoria had seventy-four direct
heirs, and when the revenues of her es-
tate are distributed among them no one
a Very la Inf nj
though she was a very rich woman. She
had nine children. of whom six survive;
forty grandchildren. of whom thirty-one
survive. and thirty-seVen great-grand-
children. all of whom survive, making
eighty-siX in all. Of whom Seventy-four
survive. OF the great-grandchildren TWEEN
two are boys and fifteen are girls. Six
are grandchildren of the present King,
eighteen are grandchildren of the late
Empress Frederick. eleven are grandchil-
dren of the late Princess Alice. and six
grandchildren of the late Duke of Sake
Coburg.
This would appear to make total of
forty-one. but several are grandchildren
of two of the late Queens children. Eight
of them are direct heirs to the different
thrones of Europe, and there are enough
remaining to rule the rest of the kingdoms
of the world. Several of them will no
doubt reach thrones.
The civil list also contains an annual
allowance of s100000 for the Duke of Corn
wall and $4,000 to each of his sisters, the
Duchess OF Ftfe, the Princess Charles OF
Denmark, and the Princess Victoria The
Duke receives about $4,000 a year from
the revenues of Cornwall, which makes
his income $4,000. His wife has an allow
ance of $4,000. The allowances to the
Kings brothers and sisters are as fol-
lows: Duke of Connaught, sl25.0 EN-
press Frederick. $40 000 Princess Chris
lian $50, 600: Princess Louise $50 900; Prin-
cess Beatrice, $4,000: Duchess of Albany.
$50. 600: Duchess of Coburg. $50 600.
Parliament made grants in lump sums
as Wedding gifts to the Queens children
and grandchildren when they were mar
ried. of which the total will probably
each 81, 900, 000-Chicago Record-Heraid.