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Title: Within royal palaces : a brilliant and charmingly written inner view of emperors, kings, queens, princes and princesses ...
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Fontenoy, marquise de, pseud
Subjects: Courts and courtiers
Publisher: Philadelphia, Hubbard Pub. Co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ing brother-in-law Frank straight hastaken up almost as much of the Duke of Cambridges time ashis duties of Commander-in-Chief of the British Army. Another reproach to which the Duke and Duchess of Tecklaid themselves open was that of extravagance. Althoughprovided with a town residence at Kensington Palace, inHyde Park, and a suburban home at White Lodge in Rich-mond Park, they lived beyond their means, and about eightyears ago there was a most disgraceful smash-up. Neitherthe Queen nor any other members of the Royal family con-sented to come to their assistance, and the consequence wasthat London was treated to the extraordinary and very finde siecle spectacle of a Royal household being sold out atpublic auction for the benefit of the confiding tradesmen who,unmindful of the Psalmist, had put their trust in Princes. The auction actually took place at the historical palace ofKensington, where the Queen was born, and innumerableheirlooms and relics, which for very decencys sake should
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Prince George of Wales. So Within royal palaces. have been retained in the Royal family, were disposed of tothe public. The Queen, by way of punishing the Tecks for this scandal,which she could easily have prevented—for the indebtednesswas not so very great—deprived her cousins of their apart-ments at Kensington Palace, and insisted that they shouldreside abroad for several years. It was not, indeed, until thedeath of the Duchess of Tecks mother, the nonogenarianDuchess of Cambridge, that the Queen relented and allowedthem once more to reside in Engfland, thoug-h no lonofer atKensington Palace. The late Duke of Clarences younger brother George, whostepped into the vacant place as Heir Presumptive to theBritish Crown, bears a striking likeness to the Princess ofWaless sister, the Princess Dagmar, present Empress ofRussia, not only in the general form and cast of countenance,but also in detail of feature and expression. For the first eighteen years of his life he was the insepa-rabl

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