DENMARK 



The Open Door, Villa Hvidore 



t I ^HIS is a comparatively new part of the 

 * garden, a tiny promontory, with a view of 

 Klampenborg Bay, a plot of emerald grass and 

 brilliant blooms, and Queen Alexandra's summer- 

 house, a little gem of daintiness, which has 

 witnessed already many a royal meeting. It is 

 here that their Majesties meet, fresh from the 

 Empire on which the sun never sets, and from 

 that other mysterious Empire, still in the making, 

 full of vivid contrasts and startling tragedies, 

 wild lonely tracts of country, and Eastern pomp 

 and magnificence. 



Here, in the autumn of 1913, three royal 

 sisters (the Duchess of Cumberland joining the 

 Queen and the Empress for a few days) met 

 together, and several other members of the Royal 

 Family. Here, too, Caesar, beloved of our 



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