THE UGLIEST PALACE IN EUROPE.

North Otago Times, 3 December 1910, Page 2 (Supplement)

THE UGLIEST PALACE IN EUROPE.

Buckingham Palace, the great sootstained house' which stands at the top of the London Mall, is very generally said to be the. ugliest palace in Europe i; but this is not the fact, I know at least one that is uglier, Tho King of Norway's palace at Christiania. resembles a miniature copy of Buckingham Palace, with a very ugly, portico. added to it, It would probably be better to pull down the whole of the east face and rebuild it in some more lasting material than Bath stone than to cobblq away at it. The garden face of Buckingham Palace is handsome, and the private* rooms on this side,, which were occupied by King Edward and Queen Alexandra, are such pleasant apartments that to rebuild them would not be of advantage. The stables and the southern side of the palace do not offend the eye, and it is really only that black-faced eastern portion which the nation should rebuild,

THE COUNTRY PALACES OF EUROPE.

If Buckingham Palace is the ugly duckling amongst town palaces of Europe, our King has in Windsor quite the' noblest of the country palaces. If Versailles ha<i remained,a and bad not been converted into a picture gallery a nd museum, it might have retained its right to be considered the most beautiful of all country palaces. • Potsdam is very fine, arid its gar-dens-which stretch from the New Palace out beyond the smaller house, which Frederick the Great built alongside the windmill-are beautiful, but it has not the majesty of Wind-.-sor' Castle-

Schonbrunn, near Vienna, is a delightful place of summer residence,' The Park at Krasnoe-Szelo, near St. Petersburg, has magnificent fountains, but its palace cannot be compared with Windsor.—''Sketch.''