Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-04
ROYALTY AS GUESTS
QUEEN OF SANDWICH ISLANDS
IN ENGLAND
Treatment Accorded 70 Monarcha
Who Visit King Edward
at Home.

From London Tit-Bits,
Among the many foreign monarchs who
have visited our shores within compare
lively recent years, one of the most ami
able and popular was the late King Of
Portugal. Of whom the following story is
told:
his majesty, like his successor, was an
enthusiastic lover Of art. and one of his
cnief pleasures during his visit to England
was to make the acquaintance Of our great
painters. with whose names and fame he
was familiar. When Sir Edwin (then Mr.)
Landseer was introduced to him his de-
light was unbounded. ."Ah! Mr.. Landseer,"
he exclaimed, as he advanced to greet the
famous animal painter, II am charmed to
MAKE max your s. acquaintance. I am SO very
Equally well meaning and unfortunate
was the late Shah of Persia, who in spite
OF ms great amiability. rarely Opened his
Once. when the Duchess Of westminster
was presented to him, he greeted her like
an old and dear friend. "Ah!" he said, with
a aoS charming Hnt;u bow, Il have often heard Of
Teheran." Good graciousv' exclaimed the
lady; aside, to a friend, "the man thinks I
am Westminster Abbey, And 50 he did.
Gown for Napkin.
1t was this same monarch who. when
sutlng at table one day between a noble
man and lady Of high rank, Mortified
them both by first wiping his hands on the
nooieman's coat and then on the lady's
skirts. as II their mission in life was to play
the role OF animated table napkins If he
was unconventional at least no fault could
De round with his piety, for he would sud-
denly break on an interview, or vanish in
ene mlddle or a garden party, with the an
noun ces: Now I am going to pray"
Another interesting sovereign who was
among on our many royal guests at the time
OF the diamond jubilee was the sable Queen
VI Ine sandwich Islands. Never did
queen queen, exact more rigid regard for her
TOO glad to escape ceremonial as far az
possible, her dusky majesty declined To
ieave her apartments without a sovereign's
to tre. OF Lie Guards, while she declined
" Teao measure unless she had at least
one OF our queens sons for partner.
once she started to pay a visit to LORD
aennyson at his home in the Isle of Wight
accompanied by a retinue of attendants
Hour after hour passed and still Lord 20
tyson caught no glimpse of his royal euest
LOT whom he had prepared a sumptuous
I'M IN que ne Al last, when hope had fed and
the hands Of the clock pointed to the witch
ing hour Of night the queen arrived. weary
ana oedraggled, without a single attendant
s ana without a scrap OF luggage. She had
LOST them all on the way.
Mr. Firth, the veteran artist. tells an
a. using story OF the kaisers first visit
then ~ england ,ois,. The young Prussian prince
vastly interested n t boy of four was
uncles, the Prince of Wales. weddinp
which Mr. Firth was then painting at
h mint tSof :, and nothing would please him
m Dut that ne, too, should have a hand In it.
70 crafty the child the artist gave him
brush and some colors and allowed him
10 daub away at will at the bottom of the
canvas. ~
Paint on the Prince.
After ha ir,uo
work few minutes Mr.. Firth discovered
to his horror that much Of the paint which
should have been on the canvas had found
us way to the young princes face, which
e1h1bited most of the colors Of the rain
DOW. Selling rag and dipping 1t in tur-
pentlne, Mr. Firth began to<scrub away at
the bedaubed face. while its owner, resent
ing the process, set to work on his cleaner
with feet and fists bowling the while at
the top of his voice. At this critical stage
the door was opened and in walked the
crown prince and princess, at sight Of
whom the boy darted under a table. from
which refuge neither threats nor entreaties
could draw him.
our royal visitors was Peter the Great of
Russia, who spent some months in Eng
land about two centuries ago, Never.
as this Of s9 Of
whom Evelyn tells u.s. At Sayes Court,
where residence was found for him
near the dockyards, he led the most I'M
royal Of lives. He dimes at 10 o'clock
and at at night" Evelyn records, us
very seldom at home a whole day. very
often in the kings yard. or by water,
dressed in several dresses
A favorite exercise was to trundle q
wheelbarrow in the grounds of Sayes
Court; he spent much Of his time working
in the dockyard or rowing on the Thames
in a dockyard boat, and when the days
work was done he and his cronies used to
resort to public house in Great Tower
street to smoke their pipes and drink
their beer and brandy. On one occasion his
majesty forsook the snug bar parlor and,
dressed as a butcher, attended masked
ball in the Temple.
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