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tan It night ms Bookworm av oy ELIZABETH luo mitt There is small crowd at dent wen outside Buckingham PalIce It must noun ol the day and at For almost all of the families visitors to London ji irorn all parts oi nritnin the countries oi Europe mm the Communwraith nd America hope that below they leave they will witness one or the great oc culons or oven perhaps catch just glimpse of Her Majesty the Queen going in or out at her London home It his been like but since July 13 1337 when Queen Victoria the lust royal tenant of the house that hu since been the nlflcili Lon don residence of Ilrltllh sovrrcints it late these same patient crowds have hltl new excitement to will for because there is now In unofficial helicopter service from the palace lawns to the far corners oi the country whenever the Duke of Edin burgh husband of Queen Elizabeth if has pressing puhlio engagemrnt Prince Philips decision to use helicopter direct ironi the pale ace gruunds nttended great many who felt that royal pui aee was hardly the place from which to operate the noisy un gainly nirmrt ltlany nodded wisely and recalled that it was the husband of another Queen the ilrst occupant of the palace who had introduced the most revolutionary changes in the great house Now another ener getio young husband with has doubtcdly advanced ideas on gadgets and scientific aids to efficiency was the master of the house No wonder the Servants feared that changes that were not palatable might be around the corner Since Queen Elizabeth ll cum to 1ch in Buckingham Palace as sovereign there have been many minor changes completely new kitchen rquippcd with the most modern gas and electric appliances has been installed it is situated in the basement right under the royal suite and put an end to the irritating delays in scr vioe that were necessary when the food had in be carried from the old main kitchens almost quarter of mile own The hitthrn is decoratodln dellonto shade ofpnlc primrose with The the equip deep beige on the flour Queen herself chusc prion Elan Bryson Refrigeration srnvms PA 4562 PROMPT EFFlClE SERVICE DOMESTIC COMMEIwIAL 33 CLAPPERTON ST BARRIE Would $400 $600 31000 or more help you from SEPT 1951 11 ma whl eludes Iltd clectrlr rinses electric fris eritor élcctrtc food mixer gas grill in hot closet and many other modern whinging rot is the min attention but the dreary rutaltar that in Men tollzcted over century of hlbltltim bu been rearranged to give van tety to the rooms and the corridors he Dim that once nude hideous to many of the pallet walls have been hung again with Miter sp prcdatlon or eye litle and taste And the third circ tronic devices have nude interiouunuoiutou within the was house more easy hiteh at that wu rrlm Philips ides When Queen Victoria first moved into Buckingham Palace it was only 28 days alter her accession to the throne The great house hld been started in the reign of Gtorfle IV by John anh the mhitort who designed landons chent Park Ind Re gent Street The obese and vain king had visions at London home thIt might challenge the glories of Versailles it was be cause Paris had its Arch dc Trtomphc that the Buckingham Palace hlli its MIrblc Archnew tnnsfcrred to Hyde Park Is one of its entrancesfor front gntet The Nash building was made up or largc central blockbuilt over the shell of the aid Buck ingham Housewith projecting wings on either side terminating In pedimentcd pavilions forming an open courtyard in front of the courtyard stood the Marble Arch ts elaborate fluted Corin lhltm columns presenting great contrast to the austere Doric col umns of the palace itself The whole building was built of Chen stone it was intended that great tqucstriun statue of George should stand on the summit of the larch and bronze statue of the king on horseback and in classical dress was commissioned from Sir Francis Chantry But when finished the statue was set up in Trafalgar Square hnthe same high granltc pedestal when it stands today There were many attacks on the itlutl and the govern mentvfor mating money ou the palace project The Palace wIs derided in the press our letter published purported ro come from French architect ln London to his friend in Parts shall now give you in ac count of the royal palace here it ran it is called Buckand llnm Palace which is building for the English king it is great curiosity In the first place the hills at the palace are made to ropresentnnglirh vege tables such as asparagus tech and onion The entabiatures or triezes ore very much enriched with leg of mutton pork and with what they call it garnish all very beautifully carved On the impediment in front stand the colossal figure of the man cook with the large English toasting fork in his hand ready to put into the pot very large plum pudding beside which is very tine plnrn pudding inotunlty over financial hurdle Then call Niagara where friendly loans are made Many thou lands of people frotncoast to cola are using Niagara Loan facilities to get extra nah when many wondollarpoymm they need itLoans arevmad up to $100000 sontetitnes more And Niagara Loanswn be life insured as an added pcuwofmind feature Remember youre always welcome at Niagara an apron Niagara him Implode not 49 77 wtlSotitIUltoiuti rhinord ham wt MIItW statue or hr no small windows or the kitchen on uch side or the imprdlmuit on the top storey or the palace has before them the trophy such the pot and pan and the other thing except that the poker and tongs are too big The English people scent very much to iih this palace and laugh very much It it There ll to in the front of the palace it Very large kitch on range made white marble Marble Arch which am told could hold one hundred geese at one time The palace when come picte will be called after the flmous English dish main theilolo when Victoril went into real tltncc in the palace the wallaten were still finishing it There WIS no provision for her guard It the gItcnd the soldiers were forced to lch in ahcd without ceiling When finally new guard room was built it was not provided with any form of Inni tatlon and the men wersfurcrd to dil their own cesspool under the floor As an act of revenge for this they began to dump their sewage in the palace court yard almost under the Queens windows Only two days alter alto moved into the palm the Queen gave party to which she invited 15 ENLInd had Thllbclfly the favorite clnsstcal pianist of the time gave concert The pianist played four fantasia amus ed by himself including ours entitled God Suva the Queen and another Rule Britannia Those first fcvii months were period of annoyance nd his trdtion for the young Queen who was only jtlst beginning to use scrt her authority after having been for so long completely une der the control oi her mothnr the Duchess of Kent There db veloped between daughter and mother running tire of combat and argument but gradually the Duchess appeared to realize thlt the careful traininl she hId giv en her daughter from childhood had borne iruit in the produce lion of young lady with nime blc mind and very much it will of her own The palace hndhren designed to have the royal staterooms sit uutcd on the groundtlooronuc count of the hibulous habits of George which made climbing stairs almost an impossibility It the end of the day Here in magnificent suite of rooms was one of the few bathrooms providv lid in the palace William IV and Queen Ade laide howevar believed there was something almost indecent in the idea of going to bed on the ground floor They had decidedalthough in fact they never tuokup occupa tion of the housethat their roomsshould be on the first floor at the northwest corner and these were afterwards taken ever by Queen Victoria The same rooms have been the royal uithWith various alterations to suit individual tastesever since The rooms on the ground floor planned for George lV were first occupied by Victorias fav orite uncle King Leopold of the Belgians and from him it he came known as the Belgian Suite it has houscd most of the dis tinguished visitors to the palace ever since it was not long beforeQueen Victoria found that the lack of military guard rooms and the shortage or bathrooms were not the only defects of her new home Within day or so she had been exasperated beyond measure to find that the umerous clocks in he palace having not been wound for months and having also been englected in house without heat were inneed of repair in those days there was no under standing as there is today that the office or works was respon sible for all the affairs of the palace maintenance The job was shared between ageat many pusntehaeeking articers Even the provision of clock or the sovereign therefore was the sub icct of argument and discussion timepiece from Vuliialnyl the house eontnlnlil seven hundred elect 7w forced to borrow m1 Fall Elli who were entrusted with the task of cleaning repairing and winding official clocks Vuiiiatnys graciously loaned the Quecn GM for fcw days without course but sent her bill for Ihlllitlfls for the hire of two men to early it ruin their shop Iothe palace When Queen virtorin went on Ioilock her room itwas found thIt the key had been lost The lurch that was orderedxo find it then disclosed that not only was it not possible to lock the Queen own doors but that the keys to almost all the locks in the palace hsdslso been lost Thrrwpon it was necessary to change several hundred locks The let bathrooms in the um hld running water It It in only cold water llot baths hid to be belted Inlurfled to the room in huge unl ln hrr blthrootn Queen Victoria hIrl strolls copper bath fittedfive lect pine Inclusions two feet ntna Inches widesnd two feet deepI listens to hold no lllloul or water and ranked furnace or heating in those tlnys there was no are and the dirty bath water as well as lavage ran into the Kings Scholars Pond sewer which ran directly under the pat ace when the Thames was in flood unit high tide at sea held back the ruler in the lower reaches this newer flooded also and the sewage was forced up through manholes into the kitche on of the prince The only at tempt to correct the situation was to raise ihefloor of the kit chen two feet Queen VlcttrIatictermincd to be moderninstalled 50 bath rooms in the palacc but very few of these worked There was therelore always considerable work for the palace servants in heeping those rooms in state oi cielniincss Queen Victoria slept in four porter bed which she brought from her old home of Kcnsinllton Palace and which she had cover Ed with green silk with cur tains in silk French frieze and finished offs with douhia set of muslin lcurtalns She used small private audience room close to her own room in which to receive hcr ministers with the exception of Lord lilelbourne her first Prime Minister whom she used to see in her private sitting room in her own room she had alorge and complete bedroom set in fancy chinnfli image has in as well as soap boxes and sponge trays all in green There were two cut glass water canine and our tumblers which cost her three gutneas She had her own satinwoad desk repelished out in her room and her garden chair was also touched up and re upholstered to match the had Queen Victoria for all her cnrelul and sheltered up bringing used her state Ipamncntl regularly She rarely dined alone or in private For dinner ch in variably Wm the Order of the GIrlAr or on those oc cIslons when it thus demand ed the Order of the Blth But every dinner she made state occasion and every or uslon an opportunity to glorlry her station She had In almost childish de light with the palace and on the occasion of her first state ball on May to 1883 declared the rooms were delightful Butt Grcville then Clerk of the Privy Council declared that they were poor affair in Tailories The Queen tlanced every dance to the music of the Johann Strauss orchestra except the waltxes She had lively discus sion with Lord Melbourne on this point it was her 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