Identifier: diplomaticmemo01fost (find matches)
Title: Diplomatic memoirs
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Foster, John Watson, 1836-1917
Subjects: United States -- Foreign relations 1865-1898 Mexico -- Description and travel
Publisher: Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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of the village to have amorning talk and listen to the music. Usually the King, Queen, or the Infantas joined it. The afternoons were de-voted to driving and riding or foot excursions into the moun-tains. At night, if there was no entertainment at the Palaceor at some of the villas, the little theatre offered a simpleamusement. One of the villas was that of Herr Bauer, theSpanish representative of the Rothschilds, a famous enter-tainer. The King maintained a game preserve or royal forest inthe mountains a few miles away, with a good supply of deerand wild boars. The gentlemen fond of the sport were fre-quently invited to accompany the King on shooting-parties,and the Queen, members of the Court, and Diplomatic Corpssometimes joined them for a picnic. Excursions were easily made to Segovia, six miles fromLa Granja, a former capital of Spain. It has lost much of itsancient glory and prosperity, but it is still one of the mostinteresting cities of the Peninsula. Its three attractive feat-
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ALFONSO XIII, QUEEX REGENT AND INFANTAS OF SPAIN THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR, LENOX ANDriLOEN FOUNDATIONS. THE ROYAL FAMILY 305 ures are monuments of three stages of its earlier history.The aqueduct of Trajan is one of the best preserved of theworks of the Roman builders. The cathedral is one of thechoicest specimens of Gothic architecture. And the Alcazar,though much in decay, is still a striking evidence of the tasteand power of the Moorish domination. After the death of Alfonso XII, La Granja ceased, duringthe sixteen years of the regency of Queen Christina, to be thesummer residence of the Court, Her Majesty having taken adislike to it and spending much of her time at the charmingseaside resort of San Sebastian, adjoining Biarritz. The gos-sips attributed this dislike to the Kings freer indulgencesin his mountain retreat. It was from here the Queen tookher journey to Vienna, whence, it was reported, she had re-solved never to return to Spain. But if she ever formed sucha reso

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