LOVE OF BALMORAL
DEFECTS IMPROVED Queen Victoria's intense love of Balmoral—where the King and Queen have recently been staying—was not shared by all the ifierrj,bers of her entourage. The castle itself, in those days, was poorly, heated, and extremely draughty—defet't»'*rertiedied; by;' King Edward —and the greit who •was ahead of her era, perhaps', in devotion to fresh air, ignored complaints and frowned on all attempts at what she contemptuously termed •" coddling." Her habit, also, of driving round in an cppii carriage in all weathers proved trying to some of her ladies-in-waiting— Mrs, Robert. Louis Stevenson rioted one autumn at Braemar. Mrs. Stevenson declared that her admiration of " the sturdy old lady" driving about in the rain was tempered by sympathy with her ladies, " their poor noses very red, and the expression of their faces anxious, not to say cross, as they miserably coughed and sneezed."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21326, 29 October 1932, Page 6 (Supplement)
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145LOVE OF BALMORAL New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21326, 29 October 1932, Page 6 (Supplement)
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