THE QUEEN AT CIMIEZ.

Evening Post, Volume LIII, Issue 114, 15 May 1897, Page 2

THE QUEEN AT CIMIEZ.

The Queen rises at Cimiez at eight o'clock in the morning, and after a light breakfast (according to the Westminster) Her Majesty goes out in her donkey-chair for an airing on the terrace and in the grounds of the Villa Liserb, where she usually remains for about an hour and a-half. The Queen then transacts business with Lord Cross and her private secretary, and she is occupied with affairs until luncheon, which is served at half-past one. After this meal visitors are daily received by the Quoen until four o'clock, when Her Majesty goes outdriving in an open carriage, and she does not return to the hotel until nearly seven, tea being usually served in the course of the excursion. The Queen then reads her letters (which arrive while she is out), and the newspapers are read to her, besides which there are always a number of telegrams to be answered. Dinner is served at a quarter to nine, and afterwards there is an hour's sitting in the saloon, the Queen retiring to her own apartments about halfpast ten. Princess Beatrice, Princess Louise of Battenberg, and Prior-ess Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein are constant companions of Her Majesty, who frequently visits her sister-in-law, the Duchess Dowager of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, at the Chateau de Falson. The Queen is to drive this week (26th Murcb) to Cap Martin, near Mentono, in order that she may visit the Queen of Saxony at the hotel and drink tea at the Villa Cyrnos with the Empress Eugenic, who has been suffering from bronchitis. A curious anecdote of a robin's courage is told in the Spectator. "A few weeks ago," writes a correspondent, "1 saw our cat running from uuder some trees with a robin in its mouth. Then I saw that another robin was clinging on the back of the cat's neck, apparently pecking its head to save its ooiupanion. As the kitten came near the house the second robin flew off, and I seized the cat, and away flew its victim with a ' cheep, cheep,' apparently none the worne for its adventure." This, as the correspondent observes, is certainly au unusual example of devotion.