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Chap. XXV.
HISTORIC PORTRAIT GALLERY.
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in a cup of chicory-water. She sits dressed in a loose robe
of velvet and point lace; behind her a velvet curtain
powdered with fleurs-de-lys; with one hand she beckons
(and such a hand too and arm!) to a negro page, while
a second, gorgeously arrayed, sits crouching at her
feet: her eyes are perhaps somewhat far apart, her
hair dressed in bouffant curls. No wonder she has
been the heroine of each successive chronicler—so
beautiful in life, her fate so sad.
Prince Rupert of Pfalz is coarse and heavy : others
of the Palgrave family, unfortunately not named, are
more Stuart-like in eye and feature. Next comes
the old Electress Sophia, grand-looking, with arched
brow; though the blood of her Palatine father has
obscured her Stuart beauty: a noble old lady she was;
her conduct towards the exiled son of James II. was
admirable. Queen Anne of England as a girl, gay and
sprightly looking, before she became heavy and stupid.
George of Denmark, by Aaron Straalt.
King George II. and his glorious Queen Caroline of
Anspach. With George II. died out any family
resemblance to their ancestors of the house of Stuart; and
from Queen Caroline—here painted, they say, by Kneller,
in a scarlet robe slashed with ermine—our English royal
family inherited that “ air débonnaire ” for which they
were so distinguished—an air accompanied with great
beauty of countenance for three generations, and still
extant in the person of a living princess, H.R.H. the
Princess Mary of Cambridge. Of the daughter of Queen
Caroline, Queen Louisa of Denmark, I have often
elsewhere spoken: there is also her sister, the beautiful
Princess of Hesse-Cassel.
This characteristic beauty of the earlier house of
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