The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-07-30
ENGLISH ROYAL VISITS.
Few Persons Who May Hope to En-
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( William Waldorf Astor at CIiveden, sd!
the English papers. In the old day.
when the king was Prince of Wales hi:
visits were hardly national events. H,
visited en- garcOn wherever his fancy
led him. although he was a tramendou.
stickleT as to the houses which hi:
/ wife could honor by her presence.
/ Queen Alexandra never went VIII
her husband TO a racing house party
unless the host and hostess We're grea
dignitaries Of the realm, and nevel
visited a a house whose host was
bachelor, save in the case of one visit
to the Earl Of Fife, who, later, becsmC
her son-in-law.
Now that the Prince and Princess oi
Wales have become king and queen
their visits viii be hedged about 5y
more etiquette than ever. and It is sup
posed that only the very elect Of the
kingdom viii be hOnOred by permi ssioE
TO entertain them. There is a certain
small English set that has always beer
called the royal house party set. Its
members being all eligible to invita-
tons 10 a royal house party and most
/ OF them being eligible to the position
Of host and hostess.
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Queen Victoria, who, though firm in
matters of etiquette Of royal visits
was, when an invitation had once been
accepted, most genial and delightful
guest never issued orders as 20 the
/ guests she wanted to meet her The
list was according TO etiquette, pre-
SenJed TO her and she examined it, but
/ OF course, there would be no one upUn
Z IL who was not known TO be persona
/ grata, and the queen never suggested
additions TO the list, unless there was
/ some urgent reason why a certain per-
son should be included. The Prince
/ and Princess of Wales, onthe con-
/ trary, often made out, themselves. the
! list OF persons they wished to meet
/ IN certain neighborhoOd, and the list
/ frequently included persons who would
( not Dy position and precedence have
/ naturally been invited. Whether the
/ KING and queen will follow the same
/ custom remains to be seen.
J queen Victoria, during her reign,
! never once visited a subject who did
! not hold high hereditary rank or a dis
! tlnguished position gained by intellect
! uaI and personal merit. She stead
/ lastly ignored the invitations Of the
moneyed aTistocracy, and, if the king
( goes TO Cliveden, he will do what his
mother would not have done.
/ Among the notables who are eligible
I 10 the position OF host and hostess to
/ the sovereign, certain ones have al
ways, on the ground of personal liking,
| been singled out for the most frequent
| royal visits.
The Duchess of Devonshire has pcs
I @4DAS CAitCA IeaAAltu Tie present King GnQ
queen more than any other hostess in
/ England, and has superb suites re-
! served for royalty at Chatsworth
( House Devonshire House and Bolton
/ ABBEY. The suite at ChatsWOrth is
particularly fine, having been refur-
nlshed in the most elaborate fashion in
| preparation for a visit paid by Queen
/ Victoria and the prince consort.
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The Duke Of Portland at WeIbeck
Abbey has a magnificent royal suite,
whose state bed room contains what
is, perhaps, the loveliest portrait of the
queen ever painted
The Duke of Newcastle has enter
tanned innumerable royal house parties
at Clumber.
The Duke of AbercOTn is the favorfte
host of royalty in Ireland. Lord and
Lady Londonderry are particularly ia
VOred by the king and queen, and no
pace in Great Britain shows more
pomp in connection with a royal visit
derry's seat.
Lord Arlington's CricheI has held
royal guests from the time of Charles
l down Then there are the Duke ana
Duchess of MOntrOse, the Duke and
Duchess of Sutherland. who have, at
DunrObin castle, which is perhaps the
most splendid queens suite in the king
domi Lord and Lady CadOgan. the
Duke of Richmond, who has enter
taiped more foreign royal persOnages
than any other English noble; Lord
LOnsdale, whom the German emperor
has visited; the Duke of BuccIeug-h. at
whose Scottish Dalkeith Queen Veto
ria held her only Scottish drawing
room; Lord ROsebeFy, the Duke OF
Marlborough. All of these noble per-
sons have entertained royal house par
ties. There are others who belong to
the elect, but the list is not very long.
The young Duchess of Marlborough
was the first American hostess to have
the honor of entertaining the present
queen, but other Americans, the COun-
tess of Craven, Lily, Duchess of MARI
borough and Lady Randolph Churchill
were favorite hostesses of the Prince
of Wales. It will be interesting to see
where the king draws the line, and
what friends of the Prince of Wales
are pushed aside by royal etiquette and
dignity
Entertaining royalty isn't, after ALL
so comfortable and delightful thing
that men and women need cry for 1t.
The honor is great. but the trouble is
greater and the responsibility Of the
hostess is a trifie wearing. Everything
is prepared with pomp and circum-
stance, but, of course, everything is
sUbordinated to the whim Of the royal
guest.
Ordinarily the host and hostess and
the other guests see comparatively lit
tie of the royal guests, though the
Prince of Wales was always distinctly
in evidence and most informal In the
houses most frequented by royalty the
royal suites are quite shut of from the
rest of the house, having even their
own private and secluded gardens at
tached. Meals are served in the pri-
vate rooms, dinner being usually the
only meal which the royal guests elect
to eat in company with the host and
hostess and the other guests. The
royal visitors bring their own serv-
ants. so that they may be served by
attendants familiar with their habits
and tastes.
The chosen few who are likely at
any time to be invited to join royal
house parties never accept such an in
vitation without taking with them full
outfits of mourning. 1t is imperative
that every member of such a party
shall wear exactly the degree of mourn
ing prescribed By the court; and now
that royal relationships are so compli-
Gated and far-reaching, the court is
likely to be thrown into mourning at a
moment's notice. A house party be-
ginning in rose color and sky blue often
ends in dead black.
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For the royal visitor, as well as for
his host, the occasion isn't all cakes
and ale. All the local phiianthrOpists