Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-03-10
ABOUT THE NEW
QUEEN OF DENMARK
She is the TaIIest and Wealthiest
Woman Of Royal Rank in
Europe.
BELIEVER IN THE SIMPLE LIFE
IN Excellent Wife and Mother Who
Has Raised Eight Children Who
Turned Out Well.
snecial Correspondenee.

Special Correspondence.
- oPENHAGEN. March I'm
several English newspapers the
new queen of Denmark Is de-
scrlbed as u very handsome"
woman. II is the custom In England
10 indulge In the grossest hattery OF
royalty, especially as regards the per-
sonal appearance OF its feminine repre-
sontatives, but the sturdy Danish folk
are less sycophantic, and no Danish
Louise even good-looking. Homely.
used in the American sense, is a phrase
that may be justly applied TO her fea-
lures, and homely. used in tho more
correct English sense-implylng devo-
tion 10 home and the possession OF the
commonplace, but none the less adj
mirable, domestic yirtues--best de-
scrbes her character. No amount Of
the most artistic retouching of pho
tographlc negative would make a sun
print OF Denmark's new queen look
pretty. Her elongated head Is decid-
cdly suggestive OF the equine type of
physiognomy. but nature has bestowed
upon her adequate compensation In
the shape of what in America is called
horse sense"
A STRIKING FIGURE.
She is certainly a striking figure.
Like most Of the members Of the reign
ing house OF Denmark, King Frederick
IS a tall man, but In stature he yields
the palm to his consort who has long
been pre-eminent as the tallest prin-
cess in Europe. In her evening shoes
and she never wears high heels--
she stands 6 feet 3 inches high, and
II is no unusual thing when the royal
couple are being photographed for the
king to stand upon a step behind her
majesty, device which even then does
not equalize their height. She has
another claim to distinction, She Is
the richest queen In the world. The
only child OF Charles XIV of Sweden
she inherited at the death OF her moth
er, n princess OF the Netherlands. a
fortune Of sl5,000,000 and her horse
sense" has enabled her to make so
many shrewd Investments of the capl-
tai and take ush excellent care of tho
interest, that she IS now worth fully
&3O,OO0,0O0 In her own right.
MUCH RICHER THAN KING.
She Is many times richer than the
King, AS crown prince his official In
come for the last 81 years has been
$4,000. As king OF Denmark he gets
a.. Ia. . al
fize no private citizen would ever have
70 stint himself In anything, but for a
European sovereign II means poverty.
IN fact, so hard did King Christian find
u to make both ends meet on his $3.50
600 year that as girls his daughters
queen Alexandra OF England and the
present dowager empress OF Russia,
had to make their own dresses. There
was no need for Queen Louse's four
daughters to learn dressmaking but
she saw TO It that they were taught It
all the same.
SHE is NOT STINGY.
Il must not be inferred from
WIS that the queen Is stingy.
She has simply higher re-
gard for thrift than prevails
IN most royal circles. And she Is fo.-
who permit her TO practise II, for the
Danes care little for regal pomp and
ceremony. She Is constitutionally OPP
posed TO wasting money. Her favorite
present to her royal relatives, and she
mas host Of them, consists OF illum-
mated Biblical texts done on vellum By
her own hand. She IL a genuinely pious
woman and Is no doubt quite right IN
thinking that her exalted relations
might profit greatly by tho study of the
texts which she selects for them, but
nave never heard OF any of them being
conspicuously displayed In any of the
royal bedrooms of Europe Apparent
~ tar better appreciated by the reclpi-
'nts are the socks, comforters, mittens
ana other articles of clothing which sho
knlts herself and distributes among
poor people Most of the occupants OF
the seats OF the mighty would regard
euch beneficence thus exercised as
great waste of time. inasmuch as a 1T
we money would supply much larger
stock OF such things than one pair OF
hands could produce But Denmarks
queen does not look at things that way;
nor do Danish people generally Indis-
urIminate charity she regards as de-
noralizing luxury, yet she bestows
money generously whore she Is assured
WI lthllN 90 BODis VI these gltlS,
however little is heard, for she has an
oid fashioned prejudice against adver-
using her benovolence which is not
SHARED by kings and queens generally
nowadays.
MARRIED AT EIGHTEEN.
She was only is when she married
,he then crown prince OF Denmark. who
was eight years older than herself, and
lnelr 80 years Of welded life has been
one or unbroken happiness She has the
Qualities that would have made her
eood wife and good mother I'm any
station OF life.
she has raised" eight chlldren-four
sohs and four daughters-and they have
~ turned out well and have shown the
Danish nation the happy spectacle Of
united family. The eldest sou--Prince
1hrlstian, now crown prince--is mar
I,en 20 Princess Alexandra. the eldest
udugnter OF the Grand Duchess Anas.
Iasia OF Mecklenburg- Schwerln, and
consequently the sister OF the crown
'ptlncess OF Germany. The second son.
,,,nhries, who little time ago became
rug Haakon of Norway, married
rtineess Maud OF Wales, now the queen
OF Norway The two younger sons.
harold and Gustav, are still bachelors
VDo four