Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-18
Preferred by King George to
All His Other Castles.
LITTLE USED BY EDWARD
Victoria Made It Her Homo Before
Death Of Consort.
MANY YEARS OF NEGLECT
Now Regularly Occupied Almost for
the First Time Since Days
Of Elizabeth.
corr.spona.nee Of n. Star.

Foreign Correspondence Of TIE Star.
LONDON. June 10, 1e11
Although no monarch IN Europe pos
sesses a greater number Of historic pal
aces than does the King Of England.
with the exception Of Windsor Castle, he
inhabits none of the ancient piles reared
by Pantagenet. Tudor or Stuart st.
James, Hampton Court Kensington have
all In turn been deserted, and the great
castle overlooking the far reaches OF the
Thames alone remains the home as well
al the palace Of tho British sovereigns.
Nor was Windsor itself without its
lapses from royal favor. az George III
found II uninhabitable from long neglect
George ~ always preferred st. James
Palace as a residence. It was only when
Queen Victoria came to the throne that
Windsor once more resumed for a time
the stately splendors which. but for a
brief interlude when the merry monarch
held high sway there, had been laid aside
more or less completely since the days OF
Elizabeth.
It is to the Unsuitable passion OF George
w for bricks and mortar that Windsor
Castle as We know It owes Its existence
Immediately after his accession he put
his long cherished plans into execution
and. under the direction OF Jeffray Wy
att. the Waterloo gallery the whole range
Of the private apartments. the Brunswick
York and Lancaster towers were added.
It was only in 1898 that King George was
able to occupy the castle, and there the
worn-out voluptuary lived In a state Of
almost oriental secluson until his death
two years later. Lady Conyngham, whom
the king had appointed lady steward. pre-
sided over the heusehold-an appoint
ment to the full as whimsical as that Of
groom OF the stole, bestowed by Queen
Anne on that other royal favorite. Sarah,
first Duchess of Marlborough.
Held Court at Windsor.
Passing over the colorless reign OF
William Nv. we come to the days when
the youthful Queen Victoria held her
court at Windsor Castle. feasting kings
and emperors in st. Georges Hall and
treading a measure with them In the
Waterloo Chamberlain Nicholas, whose
splendid physique SO dwarfed the knight
ly figure OF the prince consort as to
slightly mortify the queen. Louis Phil
ippe. the crowned bourgeois. and his
successor, Napoleon II. whom many
who then paid him homage as emperor
remembered AS wild young man about
town." In the early forties. and the
King Of Prussia. whose younger brother
was to tumble the pinchbeck imperial
crown into the dust.
The Victorian court. as stately as IT
was magnificent. presented in those days
a marked contrast to the beautiful rides
cent thing of froth and frivolity that
was the court Of the second empire. But
balls and banquets and all courtly
festival came to a sudden end when the
dread guest who enters unbidden into
palace and cottage alike left desolation
where JOY had once been in that royal
home. Although after she became a
widow Queen Victoria still spent some
portion Of the year at Windsor, Balmoral
and especially Osborne. claimed large
share of her presence. Nevertheless.
the great Windsor kitchen continued to
supply the Christmas fare for the royal
table-the baron of beef, ten mammoth
plum pudding, the boar's head and the
stuffed cygnets-this last delicacy now
happily obsolete-were all conveyed
across the Solent to the queen at Os-
borne In the little steamer Eltin, only
recently broken up.