The Inner Life of Royalty.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 326, 19 December 1888, Page 4

The Inner Life of Royalty.

It is not very often that the veil which shrouds the inner life of the Queen and Royal Family is raised, but when such an event occurs, and we are permitted to share the privilege of knowing what they think and feel on questions which are of common interest to them and their subjects, th« impression left on our mind always is how very narrow and one-sided are the views which they hold. Mrs Oliphant, in her life of Principal Tulloch, gives us one or two little glimpses behind the curtain, and in particukr one incident which is quite to the poiuk Professor Tulloch tells c£ * conversation ho had with the Queen on the subject of vivisection, and of the horror she expressed ' <u the crueltie* practised towards poor animals,' and she ridiculed the idea of comparing it to sport. 'You do not keep the poor animals and torture them?' her Majesty said. 'You ought to preach about it.' ' Another extract from a letter of the Duke of Connaught to the Queen during the Egyptian Campaign is very simple and natural, and shows how keenly the duke felt not being actively engaged. Ib must have been trying to the duke, who has all the sentiments and feeling of a soldier, to know that he could not take part actively in any of the operations going on. The risk of the Queen's son being exposed to danger was too great to be run, and he was piloted through the campaign with great discretion by Sir John McNeill, at •YWryon* k»»w at th* timt.