Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1897 — Queen’s Circus Riding. [ARTICLE]

Queen’s Circus Riding.

Queen Henrietta of Belgium, by birth an Austrian archduchess, continues, in spite of her snow-white hair and rank as a grandmother, to occupy her time with circus riding. A year ago she gave, in the riding school of the royal palace at Brussels, a semi-public performance, in which she and her daughter Clementine put their horses through all kinds of fanfy paces and trick riding with the skill of professionals. They leaped their horses through burning hoops and over flaming hedges, and her majesty jumped a pet horse over a-d4n-ner table covered with flowers and lighted candelabra. Then she drove a team of twenty-in-hand herself, mounted on her favorite mare.—Newcastle Chronicle.