She enquired why.

The answer was "the Lord Steward lays the fire, and the Lord Chamberlain lights it;" the underlings of those two great noblemen having failed to come to an accommodation, there was no help for it--the Queen must eat in the cold.
A surprising incident opened everyone's eyes to the confusion and negligence that reigned in the Palace.

A fortnight after the birth of the Princess Royal the nurse heard a suspicious noise in the room next to the Queen's bedroom.

She called to one of the pages, who, looking under a large sofa, perceived there a crouching figure "with a most repulsive appearance." It was "the boy Jones." This enigmatical personage, whose escapades dominated the newspapers for several ensuing months, and whose motives and character remained to the end ambiguous, was an undersized lad of 17, the son of a tailor, who had apparently gained admittance to the Palace by climbing over the garden wall and walking in through an open window.

Two years before he had paid a similar visit in the guise of a chimney-sweep.