The next room, called the Prince of Wales's Room, is very handsome: it has a richly-decorated ceiling in gold relief, with walls draped and embellished to match; Ionic columns and gold-framed panels to doors add to the richness; cream silk curtains to the windows, and quantities of white flowers giving graceful relief to the gold blazonry of furniture and carpet. The carpet, I may mention, has the Prince of Wales's feathers woven in the centre--from this the room is named. [Illustration: PRINCE OF WALES'S ROOM. _From a Photo. by Gunn & Stuart, Richmond._] On the wedding day I was enabled to be present at an American reception given in this room. Furniture was all cleared out and every niche filled with flowers, with wreaths of same round every picture and panel; a daïs was erected at the top, and on it stood Lord and Lady Terence Blackwood on their return from church, everybody who attended walking up to shake hands and congratulate, then walking off to find their way to the well-spread tables for "five o'clock tea." Lord and Lady Dufferin and family mingled with the crowd, talking to everybody; and though the bride and bridegroom must have been tired with standing so long, and shaking hands with so many, yet the whole affair was a deal more enjoyable than the formal breakfast, with the nervous speeches of the nervous men. [Illustration: THE RED SALOON. _From a Photo. by Gunn & Stuart, Richmond._] Of course, I congratulated the happy couple on behalf of THE STRAND MAGAZINE, and of course I carried away a piece of _the_ cake, one of the inimitable Buszard's, all glorious in silver decorations of flowers, fruit, Irish harps, etc., and mounted on a massive silver stand. For the benefit of my lady readers, I may remark that the bride was really beautiful (people generally say they _look_ so, but this one really _was_); cream satin, Venice point, and orange blossom were all in due order. But what chiefly interested me was the crowd of celebrities present--Rothschilds, Ambassadors (whose names are known and honoured), some of the French nobility, many familiar English faces, musical and dramatic stars, etc. [Illustration: THE DINING-ROOM. _From a Photo. by Gunn & Stuart, Richmond._]