Within royal palaces : a brilliant and charmingly written inner view of emperors, kings, queens, princes and princesses ... . nt horseplay, (595) 596 WITHIN ROYAL PALACES. vulgar joking are unknown to them and they are incapableof finding pleasure in aimless personal cruelty. A Greekmay take a persons life if the latters existence is inhis way, but he will never pinch or kick or torture women and children simplyfor the love of so doino-. o King George hasa civil list of ^200,000per annum, one-half ofwhich is provided outof the national revenueof Greece, while the re-mainder is composed ofannua
Within royal palaces : a brilliant and charmingly written inner view of emperors, kings, queens, princes and princesses ... . nt horseplay, (595) 596 WITHIN ROYAL PALACES. vulgar joking are unknown to them and they are incapableof finding pleasure in aimless personal cruelty. A Greekmay take a persons life if the latters existence is inhis way, but he will never pinch or kick or torture women and children simplyfor the love of so doino-. o King George hasa civil list of ^200,000per annum, one-half ofwhich is provided outof the national revenueof Greece, while the re-mainder is composed ofannual sums of ^20,000voted by each of thefollowino five orreatpowers: Great Britain,France, Germany, Aus-tria and Russia. Foreign Monarchsand members of Euro-pean reigning familiesdelight in visiting theKing and Queen of theHellenes, and the Em-press of Austria spentsix consecutive seasons in one of the Royal residences, dis-tant some fifteen miles from Athens. The country affordingbeautiful scenery and being plentifully stocked with game,the Imperial lady could indulge her taste for riding andhuntine to her hearts THE KING OF GREECE, THE ROYAL FAMILY OF GREECE. 597 Court life at Athens is very pleasant. During the winterfrom Christmas to Lent, there are a number of state balls anddinners at regular intervals. Any strangers of distinctiontemporarily residing in the capital are authorized to send intheir names to the master of ceremonies or grand marshal ofthe court, and generally within forty-eight hours they receivea letter from him appointing an audience, shortly followed byan invitation to a ball or reception. The King and Queen are both exceedingly fond of skat-ing, but as snow and ice are unknown in Greece the King hascaused a large gallery to be constructed in a wing of the pal-ace and has had it fixed up as a skating rink. An excellentorchestra plays waltzes and polkas while the Royal guestswheel round on their roller-skates, and twice a week duringthe winter invit
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