The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-09-27

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been deprived altogether of their in
comes and several of them actually
would be in want but for the fact that
King George has come TO their assist
aace Meanwhile not only the King
ard Queen themselves. but several of
the other most exalted members of the
royal circle have been hard hit in
financial way and at least one of them
has beer placed in a nightly embar-
rassirg and humiliating position.
Prince and Princess Christian, for
example have had their entire private
income, which came from German gov
eminent annuities and money invest
cd in German securities, swept away.
The prince. however. was the chief
ranger at Windsor. has salary of
$1,000 per annum and as such he also
occupies Cumberland Lodge one of the
finest residences at Windsor in the
Kings gift. rent free. To the office OF
ranger there are attached several per
quisites. such a free allowance of
milk and butter from the Kings farm
at Windsor and some of the servants al
Cumberland Lodge are also paid their
wages by the King.
But even taking these and some 9TH
er minor peruuisites into consideration
1t would be absolutely impossible for
the prince to keen un his establish
ment at Cumberland Lodge on a sal
airy of only $4,000 per annum which
would not in point of fact be sufficient
TO pay the servants wages The prince
helore The war had private income of
aoout $4,000 per annum and the princess
an annuity of $4,000 per annum. One
81 their daughters, the Princess Vic
toria, had $1,000 per annum The total
private income. therefore, of the Prince
and Princess Christian and the Princess
Victoria amounted to over $40 ooo nor
annum and this has now absolutely
ceased Tor 1t all came from Germany
Prince Christian. like many other
hhhor ROYALTIES in England. lived up to
the last penny of his income and when
sudden financial pressure came he had
10 resources of any sort to fail back
ON. As matter of fact during the first
week and following the declaration of
war they lad to obtain such necessaries
as tea, rice sugar, coffee at Cumber-
land Lodge from the storerooms at
Windsor castle. The declaration of war
came at the beginning of the month
at time when the stores of such goods
were usually exhausted at Cumberland
Lodge and the tradesmen about Wind
sor, to many of whom the prince was
in debt, refused to deliver the usual
monthly orders without cash which the
prince could not pay
Az ordinary individual in the princes
position would not only have been
quickly landed in the bankruptcy court
but probably have leen Immediately
reduced to the direst poverty. AS it
was King George came to his rela-
tive's aid. He paid off certain imme-
date pressing liabilities due by the
prince and arranged with the trades
people st Windsor to supply Cumber-
land Lodge with necessaries in the way
Of food. the accounts for which will
be discharged by the steward at Wind
SOL castle and agreed to allow his rel
atiNe $500 a month until the war was
over.
There are 81 servants at Cumberland
Lodge and all of them have agreed to
remain on in the service of the prince
for the present without wages. Princess
Christian is making scent In the still
room at Cumberland Lodge and earns
about $1b a week by selling 1t to some
of the West End houses and to friends.
Her royal highness employs four of
her maids in the still room and super
vises all the work herself. The scent Is
sold in bottles at prices ranging from 80
cents to $3.50
Prince and Princess Alexander of Teck.
who are VIGOROUSLY among the most i'm
pecunious of royalties In England. have
also lost practically all their private
means through the war.
The prince, who Is, of course, Queen
Mnry's brother, received an income of
about $4,000 per annum from interest on
mortgages on real estate in north Ger
many and the princess has about $1,000
per annum from German government an
nuities
Queen Mary has had to come from
time to time to the aid of her brother,
but her majesty now has to support both
him and the princess and their family
altogether. The prince was appointed
some little while back governor general
of Canada, but it is unlikely that his
royal hghness will go to Canada until the
war is over.
The prince was placed In a peculiarly
disagreeabe position by the loss of his
private income. His royal h1ghness Is
the chairman of a number of charitable
committees, notably of the Middlesex hos
pital committee, which was founded by
the late Prince Francis of Teck for the
purpose of raising s1,250,00O for the hos
pital In question.
When the Prince of Wales appealed for
funds to relieve the distress caused by
the war the fund is the most gigantic
collection of it's kind ever inaugurated
in England, as may be imagined from the
fact that a week after 1t had opened over
So,oO00OO had been taken), committee
or management was appointed by the
prince who nominated Prince Alexander
OF Teck as Its chairman. This appoint
ment was, however, cancelled almost as
soon as II had been made for the reason
that the prince had obviously become too
much of an object of charity himself as
the result of the war to act as chairman
for a fund for the relief of those who will
suffer in purse by it.
The prince and princess with their fam
lily are now occupying a few rooms at
st, James, palace, they have but two
servants and are living in the plainest and
simplest manner
OF all royalties in England the ex
King of Portugal and Queen Victoria his
wife, have suffered most severely In pock-
ct by the war and the royal residence
at Twickenham has been thrown into
utter confusion. The whole of the in
come of the Queen was derived from
German sources and of course, ceased.
but that did not amount to very much,
not more than a few hundreds a year.
But King Manuel. who had invested very
largely lately in Russian and French Sc
curitipS on tha advice of hia ba pkar H.,