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- Title: 227
- Author(s): Baron Ferdinand De RothChild
- Date of creation: 1890
- Extent: 2pp
- Material: Paper
- Physical Location: Waddesdon Manor
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ae) beautiful hands, which she was always ostenta- tiously displaying. To the very last she set the highest store by her attractions. We have a graphic picture of her in her sixty-fifth year by a German visitor, who saw her one Sunday as she proceeded to chapel. ‘She appeared,’ he says, ‘stately and majestic; her face oblong, fair but wrinkled ; her eyes small, yet pleasant; her nose a little hooked, her lips narrow, her teeth black, her hands slender and her fingers long. There was a special beauty in her delicate white hands, and at her audiences she took care not to hide them. She had pearls with rich drops in her ears, wore false red hair, had a small crown on her head, her bosom uncovered, her dress of white silk bordered with pearls of the size of beans, a collar of gold and Jewels ; and thus arrayed Elizabeth passed along, smiling graciously on the spectators, who fell down on their knees as she approached; while a Mar- chioness bore up her train, a bevy of ladies followed her dressed in white, and she was guarded on each side by fifty gentlemen-pensioners carrying gilt battle-axes.’ Her vanity manifested itself in many other ways. It is related that the same year when the Scottish Ambassador came to her palace she feigned ignor- ance of his presence, and kept him waiting near a curtain, in front of which she danced, seemingly