Europe and elsewhere, by Mark Twain [pseud.] [with an appreciation by Brander Matthews and an introduction by Albert Bigelow Paine]

EUROPE AND ELSEWHERE
whites that inhabit the wide reach of the Queen's
dominions.
The procession was the human race on exhibition,
a spectacle curious and interesting and worth traveling far to see. The most splendid of the costumes
were those worn by the Indian princes, and they
were also the most beautiful and richest. They were
men of stately build and princely carriage, and
wherever they passed the applause burst forth.
Soldiers, soldiers, soldiers, and still more and more
soldiers and cannon and muskets and lances-there
seemed to be no end to this feature. There are
50,000 soldiers in London, and they all seemed to be
on hand. I have not seen so many except in the
theater, when thirty-five privates and a general
march across the stage and behind the scenes and
across the front again and keep it up till they have
represented 300,000.
In the early part of the procession the colonial
premiers drove by, and by and by after a long time
there was a grand output of foreign princes, thirtyone in the invoice.
The feature of high romance was not wanting, for
among them rode Prince Rupert of Bavaria, who
would be Prince of Wales now and future king of
England and emperor of India if his Stuart ancestors
had conducted their royal affairs more wisely than
they did. He came as a peaceful guest to represent
his mother, Princess Ludwig, heiress of the house of
Stuart, to whom English Jacobites still pay unavailing homage as the rightful queen of England.
The house of Stuart was formally and officially
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