The Washington herald., 1915-06-13
ROYALTY PLANS
GARDEN PARTIES
However, Red Cross Nurses
and Soldiers Will Be Hon
ored Guests.
ALEXANDRA TO TRAVEL
Sympathy of All England Goes Out
to Empress Eugene. Who Wants
France to Win.
TO TRAVEL
By HERBERT TEMPLE.

London. June 12.-Naturally the royal
| family is going to spend the summer In
| the most quiet manner. No courts are
to be held, but there will be a couple
of garden parties at Buckingham Palace,
one this month and another in July.
These are not to be of the usual kind.
however. for the guests to be invited are
| to be principally wounded officers and
Red Cross workers.
Dowager Queen Alexandra, too. intends
| to have garden parties at Marlborough
| House for Red Cross nurses and these
will be entertained by the Queens niece,
Princess Margaret of Denmark. herself
| a hard working nurse in a military hos
pital north of London. The young prin-
cess is very eager to be allowed to go
| to the front and when the Danish am
| bulance corps. headed by Prof. Tschier-
ing. of Copenhagen. an old friend of her
| father, Prince Valdemar, of Denmark.
passed through London last month on
their way to the French front. the Prin-
| cess begged the professor to take her
along. but her father, who was asked by
cable. refused his consent.
Royalty to Aid Serbians.
Princess Margaret, who is a graduate
| of the University of Copenhagen. has
now taken up the study of medicine snd
| she will go to Serbia and work among the
| poor people of that country.
AS for Queen Alexandra, ii Is almost
certain that she will go to Norway to
visit her daughter. Queen Maud, who has
| been prevented from paying her usual
visit to England. AS the Queen of
| strictly neutral country it would not be
proper for her to visit any of the bel
ligerent countries even to see her mother,
while the lasts The Norwegian
royal family has lovely but most un-
pretentious summer residence on small
island on the west coast of Norway and
Queen Alexandra, who is longing very
much to see her little grandson, Prince
Olaf, intends to spend some time here,
| before going to her beautiful Danish cot
tage of "Hvidoere" to meet her sister.
the Dowager Empress of Russia.
King George. however. is endeavoring
| to persuade his mother not to leave Eng
land in present circumstances, when the
Germans might be expected to torpedo
| the royal yacht, but Queen Alexandra,
who is very good sailor declares that
| she fears German subma rines as little as
she fears Zeppelin attack at Marl--
borough House.
She will probably travel incognito as
an ordinary passenger on one of the Nor
weSian or Danish steamers running recu-
larly between England and the Scandina-
Wan countries. That the journey is not
without danger aside from German SUBJ
| marine attacks is evident from the fact
that on almost every trip these boats en-
counter floating mines in the North Sea.
which are exploded by rifle shots
Sorry for Empress Eusenfe.
The sympathy of all England goes
out to Empress Eugenie of France who
is daily praying that she may live to
~
she is generally thought to have caused
the loss of. when forty-one years ago
she persuaded Emperor Napoleon III to
begin what she is said to have called
my own war" 1t is anything but GER
tain that the old empress was reallv
to blame for that war. which Bismarck
wanted, but if she were. she has been
more than punished since first by her
long exile from her beloved France.
and later by the death of her only son,
who fell fighting in the Zulu war.
The old lady. who is now 90. deyotes
her entire time to nursing wounded Of
hcers at her beautiful country resi-
dence near Marlborough in Kent She
follows the events of the war with in
tense interest and declares that when
she has seen France victorious her only
wish is to be laid to rest at the side
of her husband and son in the little
chapel in her park.
King George. l am told, has practi-
cally decided to turn Balmoral Castle
which is most beautifully situated
among the hills of Scotland into a
home for convalescent officers. The air
at Balmoral is wonderfully bracing.
and Queen Victoria. whose residence
the castle was. used to say that every
time she stayed there it made her feel
five years younger. but neither King
George nor Queen Mary liked the place
and it will probably never again be
used as a royal residence