ENGLISH ROYALTY.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3214, 18 October 1881, Page 4

ENGLISH ROYALTY.

The sweet and gi'acious Princess of Wales, says a T. ondon correspondent, still preserves the right to be considered the most charming lady in Europe, as her husband is the best' poser.' Though ehe is hovering perilously near the fatal year to feminine charms (the 40th, for she is full 37), she still possesses that exquisite womanly grace and sweetness that more than even the delicate outline of her features, and sculpturesque lines of her head and throat, or the dreamy tenderness of her soft eyes, have gone to miV» up her reputation for beauty. She wil' never hp* (■''•■i.rnia, for those charms /■ln i.of •'■•penrl in foituro or colouring for their fne'.irmtv.n. T think that were Nihiliem : ■! Mi.'iM-'n pv?r to bpi'nmt; ram- !••!■.• r- i'l.in- 1 (hi;'- of «Ufh ii ennsumma ti •! "1 i not pfi'cpivp the smallest chance), Hi" affection i\n ' enthusiasm which this winning nn'l lovely lady has impressed in the p»..-pii]ai- bretist would rlo more to protect the imperilled throne than all the virtues of the present Queen. The Princess evidently realise nnd on joys her own abounding popularity, and she is the only member of the royal family, with the possible exception of her husband, who cares for such popularity. She i? extremply scrupulous about returning salutations from even the poorest of her future eubjecls. .1 vs'u.-i driving with a friend in tho jh.irk vesterilfiy when the Princess' curringe passed. My friend's coachman took off his hat. and the Princess looked up and bowed as gracefully as though a duke had saluted her. It- is such little acts as these that endear her to the hearts of the British people. The rest of the royal family remain in a sort of almost Oriental seclusion, so far as London is concerned. The Duchess of Edinburgh is in deep mourning, and the Puke and Duchess of Connaught and the Princess Louise are off travelling. Aβ to the Queen and Princess Beatrice, they are as invisible as though they were Turkish Sultanas. Poor Beutrico, who is rapidly verging on a royal old-maidism, is very like the members of the suicidal family in the old comic song of ' A Horrible Tale,' 'who never had no run nor nothink.' She never goes to the theatre or the opera with her brother and sister-in-law ; she never makes her appearance at the court balls, and still leas at any other of the social gaieties of the season ; she never drives in tho Fark, and though reported to be the wittiest and most brilliant of all Queen Victoria's daughters, she certainly leads the dreariest existence to which a Princess, outside of a fairy tale full of wir-kod fairies and impregnable towers, was ever doomed.