THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.

VOL. XVII, NO. 475.] SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1831. [PRICE 2d.

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[Illustration: THE PRINCESS ELIZABETH'S COTTAGE, WINDSOR.]




THE PRINCESS ELIZABETH'S COTTAGE, WINDSOR.


They who draw their notions of royal enjoyment from the tinsel of its
external trappings, will scarcely believe the above cottage to have been
the residence of an English princess. Yet such was the rank of its
occupant but a few years since, distant as may be the contrast of courts
and cottages, and the natural enjoyment of rural life from the
artificial luxury--the painted pomp and idle glitter of regal state.

The above cottage stands in the grounds of Grove House, adjoining the
churchyard of Old Windsor. It was built under the superintendent taste
of the Princess Elizabeth,[1] second sister of the present King, and now
known as the Landgravine of Hesse Homburg. To the decoration of this
cottage the Princess paid much attention: it is quite in the
_ornée_ style; and its situation is so beautiful as to baffle all
embellishment.

Grove House, the seat of Lady Dowager Onslow, of whom the Princess