All those who go as guests to H.R.H.'s Norfolk home come away perfectly charmed with the aspects of family life as there presented. Not by any means so grand a place as some of the stately homes of England," Sandringham has nevertl snugness and cosiness which are lack to some more magnificent mansions; and its domestic life is of the utmost simplicity, or at least naturalness, well befitting the country home of the ' first gentleman in England." After Sandringham, Aber-goldie, with its splendid Highland' scenery and bracing air, has perhaps the most attractions for their Royal Highvesses, unless, indeed, their love of Deeside is divided by their liking for the woods and lawns of Fredenborg and Bernstorif in Denmark, which have witnessed so many autumn gatherings of all who are connected with the family of the Princess of Wales who, with all her attachment to the country of her adoption, still cherishes a warm affeetion for the biomes of her childliond.
It is only when we see the Prince of Wales surrounded by his'children and his and children that we realise how fast he is now verging towards the age which is only ten years short of the span of life remised us by the Pssdmist.. Yet the uielphs have mostly all beea long livers—George III himself was sixty years on the throne; and in some respects his great-grandson has established a family precedent. For one thing the Duke of Clarence was the only eldest son of a Prince of Wales who ever attained his majority and took his seat inthe House of Lords while yet hi father was Heir Apparent to the Crown. But it may also be said that there is no precedent for the popularity whith is now enjoyed by the present Prince of Wales, who owes this unparalleled vogue no less to {his public usefulness and patriotic zeal than to the possession of those domestic virtues which nowhere command greater reverence than they do in his own royal heritage of England.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.