Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1881 — Visiting Victoria. [ARTICLE]

Visiting Victoria.

Grace Greenwood’s London Letter. We have sunned full on royalty I We have seen the Qneen, John Brown and the sest of the royal family. Her Majesty drove aa usual in an open landau, drawn by’four superb bays, with postillions, and drawn at a furious rate. Close after her galloped outriders and life-guards. She is particularly bent on going at full speed past Buckingham Palace, where in her youth she was so “happy and glorious,” and over Constitution HillV where she was once shot at. By her side sat the fair and haughty Princess Beatrice, and from his seat in the rumble hovered over her the Scotch “giffy,” John Brown, constant as her shadow, grown ver£ gray In her gracious service. The Queen was more than ordinarily red-faced and glum, and was evidently too worried and exasperated by the heat to pay decent heed to the homage of her people such as it was—the cheers which hailed the flash of her swift passage being, in truth, few and faint, very different from the reception given this sad and sullen bead of the grandest nation of the earth, this sovereignest lady of the world, was that given by the crowd to the eldest daughters, the Crown Princess of Germany, when she drove by with her gallant husband and three young daughters fair-haired, blueeyed, small-chinned, Gnelphlc girls. The princess royal is a smiling, gracious, unlike likeness to her mother, her round, ruddy face being the very ideal of bright, good nature. But to be sure, she lias still her handsome busband, and the Cares of state have never rested on her plump shoulders; she bos imperial honors and splendor before her —her mother only heaven. Theprelty Princess Louise, Marchioness of Lome, was also cheered as she drove by, and responded like a very queen. Though never so much beloved by the English people as her sister “Vicky,” she is much admired and some think ’it is hard that she was put off with a mere marquis, though a Briton and well-to-do,instead of .an honored though an impecunious German prince, such as was found for her plainer sister Helena, whom also we saw driving through the Mall to Birmingham Palace. With her was her elderly husband, Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg- Angus ten burg. He is all that, and the father of two children, one a large morganatic connection in Germany. Then came her short royal highness the Duchess of Connaught, and her martial husband—an eminently ugly pair—her handsome and “hefty” highness, Mary of Cambridge, and his serene highness, the Duke of Teek, her fascinating, but alas, if report be true not faithful lord.