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According to Mr. Green, George I. liacl tlic manners of 

 a gentleman-usher. Gentlemen-ushers are not clearly defined 

 types of human nature, but I take them to be personages 

 versed in the grave issues and nice points of Court ceremonial. 

 At all events, when he fell out with his son the rupture 

 was so decisive that the servants of the Prince of Wales's 



The Ckeam Hokse 



From an oil paintiiiri in the Quee?i's collection at Windsor Castle 



children were not allowed to wear scarlet liveries, only yellow 

 ones being permitted ' according to precedent.' However, 

 the Prince of AVales and ' cette diablesse Madame la Prin- 

 cesse,' as her father-in-law habitually called her, made the 

 best of it, and set up for themselves at Leicester House and 



when a two-year-old stallfion and filly were bought of Prince Schaumberg-Lippe. 

 The Prince's stud was sold by auction in the beginning of this year, and I believe 

 the Queen's and the Hanover stud are the only ones in Europe. Four brood 

 mares are always kept at Hampton Court, and only stallions are used in the 

 State coach. 



