SANDRINGHAM 



with ladies of fashion, vanishing again on her 

 complete recovery. 



It was at Sandringham her children's happiest 

 moments were spent, their Mother one day 

 quoting to a friend Montaigne's saying, 

 " Children's games are not games ; they are 

 their most serious actions," and adding, " The 

 enlightened woman, instructed, gifted with 

 sentiment, having aesthetic ideas, even elemen- 

 tary, who will meditate on these words and be 

 inspired by them in educating her children, will 

 accomplish a very beautiful task, and society 

 will be in her debt." 



The late Tsar or Russia, Alexander III, 

 husband of Princess Dagmar, said, " I do not 

 know better nurses in the world than the 

 daughters of the King of Denmark," and here 

 at Sandringham our beloved Princess proved 

 the truth of the imperial words, earning the 

 undying gratitude of the -nation by nursing the 

 Prince through the terrible attack of typhoid 

 contracted by him in 1871 while on a visit to 

 Lord Londesborough at Scarborough. Princess 

 Alice of Hesse and her children were on a visit 

 at Sandringham ; and Queen Victoria, coming 

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