Within royal palaces : a brilliant and charmingly written inner view of emperors, kings, queens, princes and princesses ... . legant, and presents an imposing appearance THE ROYAL FAMILY OF SWEDEN AND NORWAY. 439 —though not on the photograph which he is accustomed togive away. For that portrait represents him dressed in fulltoggery of a general-in-chief and engaged in playing the piano ! I should add that King Oscar is very susceptible to thecharms of the fair sex, and that he is accustomed to seek out-side his palacewalls that femininecompanionshipwhich he does notand cannot possi-bly find i
Within royal palaces : a brilliant and charmingly written inner view of emperors, kings, queens, princes and princesses ... . legant, and presents an imposing appearance THE ROYAL FAMILY OF SWEDEN AND NORWAY. 439 —though not on the photograph which he is accustomed togive away. For that portrait represents him dressed in fulltoggery of a general-in-chief and engaged in playing the piano ! I should add that King Oscar is very susceptible to thecharms of the fair sex, and that he is accustomed to seek out-side his palacewalls that femininecompanionshipwhich he does notand cannot possi-bly find in his Queen canonly be portrayedin the words of awitty French diplo-mast, who de-scribed her as thephylloxera of allgayety. She is neitherbeautiful nor acjree-able, and is perpet-ually in ill health,both of mental andphysical least, it is onlyby setting her down as eccentric to the verge of lunacy thatone can account for her general crankiness. King Oscar was almost a chum of Colonel Staaff, a Swede,who wrote the best compendium of French literature thatexists, for use of cadet schools in THE CROWN PRINCESS OF SWEDEN AND NORWAY. ..Q WITHIN ROYAL PALACES. In his young days the King was reported a universalgenius, and took pleasure in the society of intellectual peopleof the earnest sort, but who could also be lively and eyes, by the bye, have a singular beauty of aged Marechale Sushet, who was a near relation of thefirst Queen of Sweden, of the Bernadotte line, used to saythat Oscar was the only one of the Empress Josephinesdescendants who inherited her eyes. I particularly remember the first time when I had thepleasure of meeting His Majesty, Oscar 11., who was thennot yet on the throne. It was at a soiree. He was sittingdown when I came into the room. When he rose, I thoughthe would never stop until his head went through the ceiling;indeed, when once drawn up to his full height, he looked likeGulliver among the Lil
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