The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-06-15
ANNOYED HER MAJESTY.
TOBACCO LOST HIM THE ORDER
OF THE GARTER.

How the Duke of Teck Smoked a Pipe
at Windsor castle-Even the Prince
Of Wales Could Not Appease the
Queen.
The Duke of Teck was a great
smoker, and seems to have been priv
LEGGED to smoke on all occasions. and
even in the houses of his illustrious
reations, when other guests had to lie
most strict in their conformity to the
rules of tobacco.
l myself have seen the Duke of Teck
driving through 'ae Strand, accom-
panied by the princess. his wife, and
by the Grand Duchess of Mecklen-
burg Schwerin, putting furious clouds
from a huge cigar between his teeth.
have also seen him, on the terrace
of Marlborough House. standing amid
a group of his royal highness rela-
tons of both sexes, not only smoking,
put the only one smoking. Indeed,
1t is said that this habit of his for
cigar lost him the Order of the Garter,
which he very nearly Received at the
time of his daughters wedding.
mere had been a family dinner at
Windsor, and the Tecks were present,
and had also been invited to sleep at
the castle. The rooms assigned to the
duke and duchess were in close vicin-
ity to those of her majesty. Now, the
queen never was a lover of tobacco.
Her late husband was not much of
smoker She was brought up in an
age when tobacco never came near a
lady's drawing room, and certainly re-
manned very far from her boudoir.
Her son, the Prince of Wales, and his
brothers, are all smokers, but it is
stated that they never smoke in their
mothers presence, except in the open
air.
On the particular night of the FAM
lily dinner mentioned above, after the
queen had retired to bed, and when
presumably she had made up her
mind that Francis of Teck should be
told the following morning at break
fast that he should have the garter,
she suddenly detected the smell of
smoke. Her majesty at once touched
the bell beside her couch.
"Who dares to smoke in the castle"
exclaimed the queen.
The two bedchamber women gaZed
at the great old lady with fear and
amazement, but they were soon or
dered to find out, and for the next
few minutes there was a dreadful
commotion in that particular corner
of Windsor castle.
There was ringing Of bells, tramping
Of sentries, rousing of deputy assist
ant chamberlains from their beds, q
hasty summoning of the lord high con-
troller of the household and scurry
into garments on the part of equerries
and deputy gold and silver sticks in
waiting. 1.-THE queen smells smoker
was banded from mouth to mouth.
Tobacco smoker At last the smell
was traced, and definitely traced, to
the apartment occupied by his high
ness, the Duke, and her royal high
ness, the Duchess of Teck. The lower
court officials, such as equerries and
chamberlains, scarcely ventured to
hammer the ducal door, but the graA
controller of the household did VEN
ture to knock, and he hammered with
such effect upon the panels that the
Duke of Teck himself opened the
door, attired in paiamas somewhat
short in ankle, and, awful to relate
short briarwood pipe in full opera
ton clenched between his teeth.
His highness looked surprised, natur-
ally. Then he asked what was the
matter, and the chorus of royal myr-
mii d@cInSs yelled: "Tis the pipe, your
highness. the pipe. Her majesty
smells smoke!"
But the next morning, when the
Prince of Wales ventured to remind
his royal mother Of the Duke of Teck
and the garter, he was peremptorily
silenced with: No, BERTHE, no; am
very angry with him. He woke me up
with his awful tobacco" And the
Duke of Teck had to die garterless!-
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