3-082-418 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Queen's Visit to Cimiez: Grand Hótel de Cimiez, occupied by the Queen, 1895. 'Cimiez, which, has been chosen for the Queen's spring residence, is a charming but comparatively little-known suburb of Nice...The road ascends gradually between rows of plane-trees through a well-wooded country, dotted here and there with handsome villas, lying picturesquely embedded in olive groves...The hotel itself is a comparatively modern building of three low storeys, lying rather back from the road in an old-fashioned garden with winding walks of bamboos, palms, and eucalyptus, the dark foliage of which is thrown into pleasant relief by clumps of orange-trees, bearing at this time a fragrant combination of white blooms and golden fruit...Her Majesty will have, as usual, a drawing-room, dining-room, and bed-room for her own private use; the walls coloured in distemper, and all the furniture being brought from Windsor. The rooms to the north at the farther end of the hotel are to be prepared for the Queen's Indian attendants, who will, of course, have a special kitchen. There is no lift in the hotel, and the Queen will be carried in a chair to her apartments on the first floor up a wide easy staircase'. From "Illustrated London News", 1895.