English: Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
Identifier: withinroyalpalac00font (find matches)
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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d the duty of monthly nurse and sage-femme for her Royal mistress, and who was the first to greetthe tiny Prince on his arrival in this world. The Prince of Wales soon afterward gave up Frogmore,finding it too damp, dreary, and above all, too near his mother,the Queen, for the latter is exceedingly despotic with her chil-dren, exercising her authority over them not only as mother,but also as sovereign, and ordering them hither and thither,without any regard to their convenience, comfort, or inclina-tions. The Prince loves his independence, and thereforesees just as little of his respected mother as he can possiblycontrive to do. One of his greatest annoyances when in herpresence is that he cannot smoke. Queen Victoria, notwithstanding all that has been said tothe contrary, has a very strong dislike to tobacco smoke, andsmoking is stricdy forbidden in all those parts of the Palaceat Osborne, Windsor, or Balmoral which she frequents. Some time ago one of her Cabinet Ministers received a
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