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April 1893, by Various

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Title: The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 28, April 1893
An Illustrated Monthly

Author: Various

Editor: George Newnes

Release Date: March 11, 2007 [EBook #20798]

Language: English

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THE STRAND

AN ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY

Vol. 5, Issue. 28.

April 1893

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[Illustration: SANDRINGHAM

_From a Photo. by Bedford Lemere._]

_The Prince of Wales at Sandringham._

[_The Prince of Wales is, of course, precluded by his position from
granting interviews like private persons, but His Royal Highness
has been so good as to give us special permission to insert the
following extremely interesting article, which we are happy to be
able to present to our readers in place of the Illustrated
Interview for the present month. The next of the series of
Illustrated Interviews, by Mr. Harry How, will appear next month.
Sir Robert Rawlinson, the celebrated engineer, whose work saved so
many lives in the Crimea, has given Mr. How a most interesting
interview, with special illustrations._]

"Far from the busy haunt of man" might be fitly applied to Sandringham;
so quiet, and so secluded, is this favourite residence of the heir to
England's throne and his beautiful and universally esteemed wife.

Not an ancient castle with tower and moat, not a show place such as
would charm a merchant prince, but beautiful in its simplicity and
attractive in its homeliness; yet withal, clothed in the dignity
inseparable from its owners and its associations; in short, a happy
English home, inhabited by a typical English family.

How often have we seen them in the country lanes all squeezed into one
wagonette, looking like a jolly village squire and his family; or
watched the young Princes and Princesses careering round the park on
their favourite stee