ROYAL CHARITY.

Evening Post, Volume XLVI, Issue 19, 22 July 1893, Page 2 (Supplement)

ROYAL CHARITY.

There is a common opinion that the interest taken by Royalty in philanthropic aims is more superficial, or, perhaps, official, than real and deep. The Duchess of Teck and the Princess May, among other members of the Royal Family of England, have, however, given tne most convincing proofs that this is not so. I have reason, nay, authority, declares the " Cricket " in Hearth and Home, for saying that the Duchess of Teck sacrifices more than £1000 a year of her small — for her position— income in expenses connected purely with her voluntarily-accepted publio engagements. This is actually a double tithe on her income, and I wonder how many persons in these isles, with nothing like the demand to keep up

a certain sooial pre-emiuei.ce, do the like ? I have a suspicion that they could be counted on the fingers of two hands, if not on one. The income of the Princess May is proportionately invaded by the same public claims ; but she has learned the secret of being exquisitely dressed at about the quarter of the amount that a young lady with her private means would consider necessary. I cau ouly suppose, thorefore, as she is pconomical in all ways affecting herself, that the balance, and more, goes tho way of the £1000 odd.