Marlborough house and its occupants, present and past . llowing the national carnival on EpsomDowns, not one is so well organized and perfect inits way as the Derby Day Dinner annually givenby His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales to themembers of the Jockey Club, in the large dining-room at Marlborough House. For many years thelate Lord Wilton had been in the habit of qqvinor abic^ dinner to the members of the club at his housein Grosvenor Square on the Monday precedingthe great race ; and on his death, in the year 1885,the Prince continued the practice with the happiestresults. On no evenin
Marlborough house and its occupants, present and past . llowing the national carnival on EpsomDowns, not one is so well organized and perfect inits way as the Derby Day Dinner annually givenby His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales to themembers of the Jockey Club, in the large dining-room at Marlborough House. For many years thelate Lord Wilton had been in the habit of qqvinor abic^ dinner to the members of the club at his housein Grosvenor Square on the Monday precedingthe great race ; and on his death, in the year 1885,the Prince continued the practice with the happiestresults. On no evening in the year are the favourite dining-resorts of Londoners so crowded as on the DerbyDay, nor does any function of the season bring withit so much responsibility and taxation of resource torestaurateurs and public caterers generally. The Savoy, the Grand, the Metropole, the Bristol, the Continental, Spiers and Pond, the Cafe Verrey, Blanchards, etc., clubs withoutnumber, private houses, and Coleherne Court in £ s. - a c 5: c3 a> cc1-1 « z -• 0. Marlborough House. 61 particular, where Mr. Edmund Tattersalls Derby-Dinner is looked upon as an institution—all are ontheir mettle to provide fittingly for the celebrationof the Blue Riband Day. In the state salle des festins at MarlboroughHouse, the long table, with its covers laid forover fifty distinguished guests, is a fine sight;but before entering into details thereupon, itwill be as well to say something about the sur-roundings. As the invites enter from the drawing-room atthe east of the building, they see before them anoble seven-windowed apartment over fifty feet long,with an ornate marble mantel-piece at either end,over which places of honour hang copies of Winter-halters famous pictures of Her Majesty the Queenand the late Prince Consort. Immense Kentia palms in ornamental bowlsstand on each side of these paintings, and in someof the windows are rare exotics in pedestal-sup-ported vases. Ornamental bracket groups o
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