Show ROYAL PALACE of the striking ot king favorite Kesi deuce although the reigning family of sweden is far from rich ow ing to the ate king having bequeathed every ves-tige of property that he could dispose of to his only daughter now crown princess of denmark yet there are few more magnificent abodes in the old world says alie chicago tribune it is the favorite residence of the crown prince during the summer and may be said to have been erected absolutely regardless of cost that is to say in its present form for alie oldest part of the castle dates back to the year 1100 when according to the scandinavian sages it was the stronghold and home of alie famous king sigurd one of the features is the gar-den the glass roof of which rests on sixteen marble columns each of which cost over forty thousand dollars it is situated on the very edge of the cliff overlooking the bea from the land side the view stretches over hill and forest for many u long mile one i amusing feature in connec-tion with this palace is the so called isle of elba that lies within a stones throw of the palace and which owea its name to the fact that when in 1814 the first napoleon was deported to elba the princess sophie albertine who re-garded him in the light of a bugbear caused one of the largest eagles to be moved from alie aviary of the castle and to be conveyed to this little island where it was shut up in a cage as a kind of memorial to alie fallen emperor by a strange coincidence which cannot be explained the eagle managed to es-cape on the iury day that alie first napoleon sailed from elba on that last journey ended in waterloo and st helena cloak sale |