COFFEE AND KINGS.
AND A CASKET OF PEARLS. Coffee and kings have had long association. We get a minor sidelight into the home life of King Albert of the Belgians by His Majesty's confession that "at home at Brussels I always dip my bread in my coffee, but the Queen does not like it." A less blameless monarch in the long ago dipped biscuits in his coffee, but not, alas, in the presence of his Queen; for one can still see •in the apartments of Du Barry at Versailles the grate at which Louis XV. used to boil coffee for them both. On one occasion be let it boil over on to the delicate bands of his mistress, who bundled him down the narrow spiral staircase in her rage, and got, a casket of pearls the next morning as a peace offering.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20722, 15 November 1930, Page 6 (Supplement)
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