Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-07-28
FOREIGN NOTES
AND COMMENT

King Humbert and Queen Marguar-
tie have now quoted Rome for the
summer, and ara staying at M0nza,
their favorite home near Milan, pend
ing their departure for the Alps. The
king will go channels shooting while
the queen as usual will take up her
abode at her favorite Alpine resort,
Grassoney, where, as every one knows,
she and her lady IN waiting wear moth
ing but the picturesque peasant COS
-ume Of the district
With regard to aM the rumors that
are current about the dismissal of the
prime minister, Gen PeiIouN. l do not
think that the people who start these
stories are aware of the personal re-
lations which exist between the gen
eral and his sovereign. and which
weigh far more heavily in the balance
than is generally supposed. The king
il above everything else a solGier. and
he has known General Pelloux ever
since the latter first received his com
mission as lieutenant, PellouX having
repeatedly been attached 10 the mill
tary department. Of the royal house
hold. In fact ties of the Oldest friend
ship and of military comradesLfp ex-
ist between the king and his premier
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Last week 1 referred in these col
umns to the increasing laXity of Queen
Victoria IN connection with her admis-
sion of divorced ladies to her court A
cursOry glance through the list of those
TNrP ~ H. I7-- HoI1
ingham palace, reveals the presence
of no less than three divorced ladies'
one Of them an American They were
Lady Bianford, mother of the duke Of
Marlborough; Lady PirbrighJ, and the
marquise of Tallyrand-Peug who
was Miss Curtis of Boston, and VIII ose
divorced husband no longer bears the
title OF marquis, but is now known as
the duke OF Dino, and has since mar
ried a New York woman.
Incidentally, I may state that at
this state ball, the first official func-
ton al which the young Countess
T0rby, mOrganatfc wife of Grand Duke
Michael of Russia was present, she
was assigned by the lord chamberlain
a seat on the bench with the English
duchesses, and accorded the same
precedence as their graces. Her hus-
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the dais reserved for the royal and i'm
perial personages, from which she,
however, by reason of her morgan3tic
status was debarred. She has, how
ever, nothing to complain of in the
matter for she shares the lot Of Queen
Victor.a's son-in-law, the marquis o.
LOfne, whose wife, Princess Louise, oc-
cupies 4 seat with the royal folks at all
state eltertainme nts and official func-
tons, whereas he has to take his place
along with The ordinary guests While
his wife has a seat at the royal sup
per table, he has to content himself
with the buffet.
Young Charles Gordon who has just
been killed through a fall sustained
while endeavoring, when intoxicated,
to enter the house of his cousin by
climbing up ths water spout, was the
eldest son of Lord Granville Gordon,
and heir presumptiye 10 the marquis
ate of Huntly, as Lord HuntIy has no
children, and his next brother, Lord
Esme, popularity known as Teapot
Gordon, has only a daughter.
This branch of the Gordon family
seems blighted with a curse. Lord
Granville Gordon, father of the unfor-
tUnata young officer, has been arrested
and convicted of keeping a common
gambling hell. Lady Granville, his
mother, failed as a shop keeper under
the name of Madame Iierl'e'' Lord
Esme has repeatedly been in trouble,
while the marquis cf Huntly had on
one occasion to fly the country. with
2 warrant out for his arrest for OBJ
tanning money under false pretenses.
This cost him his position in the royal
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ally compromised. Today he is a
bankrupt
1t is not only in England, but also
in Russia that one finds professional
actresses mingling on terms of social
intercourse with great ladies, figuring,
not professionally, but as guests at
parties and entertainments in town
and at house parties in the country,
and, in one word, accepted socially by
the great world. Mrs. Tree, who is the
leading actress at the Haymarket in
London and at the same tina the
bosom friend of the Duchess OF Port
land and the marchi0ness of Granny;
and several other fOOtIghJ favO-iteS
of the same kind in London whom 1
could mention have their counterpart
in the Russian capital, where The
Countess Nourav.eff, niece of the min
lister of justice, forms part OF the Sc
cial circle to which these great dignl-
taries belong, although she IS 4 pro- !
fessi0nal actress and belongs to the
company of the sO-called imperial !
theater under the somewhat lengthy |
name of Commissarg ewashka.
And in the same way that one meets I
at English house parties IN honor Of
royal ladies' old Earl Howe's son. the /
Hon. Fred Curzon. and his ch2rming /!
wife, who still seeks popular applause d,
at the 'footlights under the well known