"Races," wrote Queen Victoria to her gadabout son Edward, "have become so bad of late, and the connection with them has ruined so many young men." In her reign the royal stables were no great shakes, but Victoria did keep her house in order. Last week over her birthday (May 24) the good Queen would have been horrified to see her respectable great-grandson George filling his pockets with race-track winnings (see above) while his household went to pot.
At Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle and Marlborough House some 200 of George's 235 footmen, valets, cooks and pages joined the Civil Servants Union...
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