A TRAGiC QUEEN.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 155, 30 June 1917, Page 15

A TRAGiC QUEEN.

Now ninety-one. the Empress Eugenic has surely exceeded all Royal records for longevity. She one,, remarked ithe "Daily Graphic" says) that 'Cod in His infinite mercy may give mc a hundred years of life." From her lips. too. there came that piteous confession. "I am left alone, the sole remnant of a shipwreck which proves how frail are the grandeurs of this world." She has been an exile nearly half a century now. the larger portion of which she has spent, not at Chislehurst as so many think, but at l-'afnborough Hill, the property she purchased when the death of her sou made the memories of Chislehurst too poignant to endure. A large, wing of the Fiirnborough mansion has been adapted as a hospital for wounded I British officers, the arrangements having, been carried out under the personal supervision of Her Majesty. This work of mercy I has been her chief occupation since the war I.eL-an. as otherwise, with her own private chapel, she rarely leaves her home save to attend Mass for the fallen of tbe French and British Armies. 1