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Show HOW A QUEEN IS DOMICILED. The Queen of Spain's apartments at the castle of Pardo are thus described. The rooms are eight in number. The first we enter is hung in while satin, with hand embroidered blue flowers, the furniture, of Louis XV style is upholstered in rich blue satin; in a corner is a remarkably fine cabinet of rosewood, ornamented with old Sevres panels of great beauty. This rooms leads into a smaller boudoir, style of the first French empire, hung in yellow satin, with furniture of the same. In a recess of a window is a small equestrian statue of the king when he was only four years old. The small mite, looking very frightened, is hold the bridle in one hand and is saluting with the other. The third room is called the queen's music room. The hangings are red and gold, two grand pianos occupy two corners, and curves and nicknacks knickknacks abound. The queen's study or workroom, comes next. It opens upon a large terrace, which, in summer, is arranged as a garden. It is white and gold, the furniture being old Dutch, with inlay of colored flowers. Then comes the bedroom, which is a very marvel of splendor and luxury. It required no less than eight hundred years of stuff for the hangings which are of ecru Lyon's silk, broche with alternate lines of red and blue flowers. The furniture is Louis XVI; in a corner is a table in old Sevres; in the middle of the room is the bed, in the black wood, with embossed brass ornaments; at the head two reclining nude female figures support a shield, upon which is emblazoned the queen's monogram in red upon a blue ground; a canopy in embossed brass, supports the curtains, which are thick silk, of the same design as the hangings. The bathroom which is close by, also opens into a room specially reserved for the queen's attendants, and near the bedroom also is the dressing-room, the furniture of which is silver pine, the walls being hung with ecru silk, with blue flowers. |