KING LEOPOLD.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 16, 2 January 1912, Page 7

KING LEOPOLD.

ANECDOTES BY HIS YAI.F.T. The valet who is v.i.urm his lin'-j moirs in connection with King Leo-' pold IL of, Bf-kritim tells about the} p.*> : instps i :*nc; c of Ins master. Kins: Leopold was. it ap-■ peats. at perpetual enmity with his | cooks. Looking over a menu one day I onJkhich a duck cooked with port wine was marked, he is alleged to have exclaimed : “Oh. this is all nonsense' They drink the pert, and i de not put any on the dish.' 1 • !!>• pu-iif-d .his aninros’ty against! th*- .=>< k< .-o far as to criticise in adv.t,-_. t’lii'C y wi'ic going to pr>-pu:'c. V- .i'k : ci> and down >nj liis room before luncheon he would! be talking to himself in the thiroj "person as usual: "He knows that: the ■dii'-k is going to smell t! “ barn. He knows that the beef iro going to be tough. Me will not.eat. any uerire.rk to-day : he knows it is, going to be high.' He was m co. ; r.tant of contagious dr-<-’-». The rooms of Hi - servants hat! to b<Q disinfected as well as his own. an>i he was always on the watch to sec' that his domestics were perfectly) heal.ay. One day an architect <okl : him eonildentiaily that his daughter, was ill with scarlatina. The Kingj di .-missed him at cnee, and had the. icGiti fully disinfected where he! hr-' been miking with the visitor. | We are also told of some queer! habits as '.eaards dress. The kepi J •or uiilitaiv rap. worn b Ki >a Leo-j pclcl ' <>i iegmida -y; jokes ar Lr..U . No-." cf It r.iend-J ants < oi*.ld rdiembfr when it was n ey. fir aiwavs ealied ir h’- oonanil had a real affmicn for •*-. ■ ir-nirt" was certainly twentyears old. The galrons had been , ed and new ones sewn on time a i-. again by the chambermaids. The Aing took everything that concerned hi- ■■bonnet” very seriously, and'it has finally found an honour-'-restinu-place in the Porte det V HaI .Museum. i