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Show (Jueeu Victoria's Tea. London Letter. The tea consumed by the royal household house-hold in England is always bought at a quaint, old-fashioned shop in Pall Mall, and has been bought there during the reigns of Queen Victoria's five predecessors. prede-cessors. It costs five shillings and four pence a pound, and was for a long while known as "Earl Grey's mixture," this nobleman having recommended this particular mixture to her majesty. When a dinner is given at Windsor or Buckingham Palace, fish to the extent of i'50 worth is ordered; but for an ordinary family dinner three kinds of fish are put on the table, whiting being almost iuvariably ono of them. A sirloin of beef is cooked every day and is put on the sideboard cold for luncheon. The queen takes after her dinner ono water biscuit and a piece of Cheddar cheese; the prince of Wales eats a bit of Gor-gonzola Gor-gonzola with a crust of home-made bread. The tea, the cheese and the roval bed are always taken along when the queen travels. Her majesty's wine, which is well known to be incomparable, incompar-able, is kept in tho cellars of St. James' palace, and is scut in basketfuls of three do.en to wherever she may be. thia being be-ing done moio for the household and guests than for herself, as when alone she drinks only very weak whisky and water with her meals, by her physician's physi-cian's orders. At banquets, however; she takes two glasses of Burgundy. The clerk of tho royal kitchens, who always carves, receives 700 per annum, an-num, the head chief the same salary, and the confectioners 300 and 250. |