DISRAELI LETTERS.
QUEEN VICTORIA UNBENDS
Some of Disraeli's hitherto unpublished letters to Lady Bradford and Lady Chesterfield which' iijive recently appeared in tlio London Daily Telegraph give delightful glimpses of Queen A ictoria at Balmoral and Windsor. I'll one letter Disraeli recalls being ushered into the small room at, Windsor Castle v.hero the Queen received her Primo Minister, finding there two chairs in place of the accustomed one. " T was discreet enough." lie writes, " not, to a si; the purpose of the second chair," and lie remained standing until the Queen invited him to bo seated—" a thing unprecedented." This unparalleled condescension continued as Disraeli's health began to fail. To Lady Bradford he, wrote, on June 28, 1875: "'Tlio Faerv—a romantic name for Queen Victoria—was very gracious; she would make mc sit down even in the, presence chamber. Rlio says lam never to stand. . . When I took my leave at. the audience, 1 would put my golden chair back in its place that the breach of etiquette should be kept secret. So T told her and she smiled."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20384, 12 October 1929, Page 8 (Supplement)
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178DISRAELI LETTERS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20384, 12 October 1929, Page 8 (Supplement)
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