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Christmas For Two Queens

VICTORIA AND

ONE

ELIZABETH

By John Chambers

NE hundred years ago, Queen Victorin and her family sat down to their Christmas Day dinner at Windsor. There were more than a dozen courses. It took them the remainder of the afternoon to recover from the sumptuous feast which had been preceded that day by the usual

five-course breakfast.

This December 25, Queen mas dinner. Then she must Victoria'a great-great dress and be made-up by an granddaughter, Queen expert for her second Elizabeth II, has less than Christmas Day television an hour to rest after Christ- broadcast.

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WE LOCATED MANY PLANETS WITH OUR, TYPE OF LIFE ON THEM

This is the fundamental duterence between the Christampa of the Queen of today and the Queen of a century ago difference of tempo., Victoria had

no

special engagements Christmas Day, 1958,

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Elizabeth is kept so busy that she has to open fer presenta on Chirisunas ENE..

Eating on the scale of the Victorians would make it.m- possible Lor, the present-day Licen "to get through her hecție DIOZTAMME. So ane bas the simpidst of Christmas Day meals a modest turkoy dinner fol- lowest by a light helping of the

rational plum pidding.

for

the Victorians, eating

and drinking was the main part

of Christmas Day. And with whisky at twenty stilinga A

gallon and over at tempence gallon, drinking part of the nation-wide meny-

innking.

Was a major

In 1858, some 60,000 paupers in London received gifts of roast beef or pork, potatoes, plum pudding and plot of portor. There was plenty of food and drink for all. But tho Sinest tables of all were to be seen at Windsor Castle, where Victoria and her family always spent their Christmas holiday.

On Christmas Day, two huge boars' heads and

gargantuan baron of beet would be ruasted bafore the conl ranges, The menu would also include stuffed tur- key, roast cygnol, woodcock ple,

in

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Queen Elizabeth II mada her first Christmas Day television appearance fast year. Our picture shows, her making this historic broadcast to the Common-s wealth, The microphone is concealed in a vase of flowers. On the desk, too, are framed photograplis,óf......

Charles, Prince of Wales, and Princess Anne.

Queen Victoria, Prince Albert and the Royal children with one of the first Christmas trees

plum pudding and mince ples. man, who would cut great ovor soon in Britain,

Two dozen bottles of brandy chunks of ice from the rivers an According to an account went into the mincemeat for the the royal estate and store them

Royal Family, 150 eggs contemporary

went in neat blocks in a "grotte" at Into the plum puddings for the Windsor. journal, the tree was d

Royel Household. The pudding, ft high and "pendent

made from an old Buckingham from the branchor are

Palace recipe, also contained elegant trays, buskots, four gallons of strong ale,

bottle of rum, and brandy again, bonbonnieres, and other recaptacios for sweet- meats, af the most väried and expensive kind, and of all forms, colours, and degrees of beauty, The name of

the recipient is affixed to the doll, bonbon, or other pre- sant intended for it, so that no difference of opinion in the choice of dainties may arise to disturb. the equanimity of the illustrious juvonilos.“ (Acknow- fedgments to illustrated

London News).

The kitchen staff tolled among gas flores and turnspits, and many of them had quaint Kitles, like the Men of the Green Office who cleaned the vegetables, and the Steam Man who cooked them

A century ago the Queen's larders wore stocked with-andre food than the residents could

In 1850, the royal baren of hope to eat in a year. For Vie

by a beef was supplied

Mtoria liked to give food away.at Street Christmas. A shoulder of inme “Hughes' of Peascod

Windsor, and it is recorded that would go to och workerton Har containing estates; Inrgo „ples, : "the noble joint was cut from a prize Highland ox fed at Norfolk turkey, chicken, pheasant,-wood- cock and stuffing, were sent to Farm by the Prince Consort

her friends. and welched 3 'ewt. It was, as le

the custom, decorated and placed Today, Queen Elizabeth also cold on the side table in the makes traditional presunta royal dining room, with the 21b Christmas pudding to ach boar's head and woodcock ple, member of the staff, at:' Sand- on Christmas Day, where it re- ringham; one mittredweight of umained till New Year's Day.

coal much to about 1,000.old and

In those days there were no needy people. Living in. Royal labour-saving" devices in the Windsor, and, following a cus- castle kitchens. Instead of a re- tom begun by her grandfather, frigerator, they had a Royal Icc- Gerge V, two Christmas trees

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