The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-05-25
CORONATION H0STESSES.
GREAT ENGLISH LADIES WHO WILL
ENTERTAIN BRILLIANTLY
THROUGH THE SEASON.

The Young Duchess of Westminster
Who Promises to Be the AcknovvI-
edged Leader of the British Smart
Set-A Titled American and Her
Haunted MansiOn-LadY War
wicIS's Indefinite Lease of Beauty
and Power, With Two Untitled
DANES of High Degree.
London, May 19.-The brilliancy and
success of the present coronation sea-
son in London rests wholly on the
shoulders of the fashionable English
hostess. The King may provide the
glitter and grand shows, but it is up
to" the feminine leaders of society, so
to speak, TO second his efforts, and sat
isfy the many hundreds of thousands
of foreigners with the sort of hospital
ity that fingers warmly in the memory
of strangers. AS long ago as last au-
tumn some of the women, who have
already assumed leading positions as
Park Lane and South Kensington
houses in order for this springs cam
paign.
The grand city mansion belonging to
the Duke of Westminster was, for ex-
ample, done over from top to bottom
for the exceedingly handsome young
Duchess, whose marriage made such a
social stir a year ago, and who prom
ises to become the most powerful host
ess in English society. This lady is
the second daughter of Mrs. William
60 VTs
beauty in the day when Mrs. LanStry
first appeared The Duchess elder sis
ter is the beautiful Princess of Pless,
and is one of the great ladies' and lead
ing beauties of Emperor William
court All things considered, however,
Miss Constance Edwlna Corvallis
West made a more brilliant alliance
than her sister when she married the
richest of the English dukes.
His Grace of Westminster met with
sharp family opposition when he an
nounced his desire to marry Miss
CORVALLIS West. He is even now only
% years of age, his wife's junior by
five years, and his stern, simple, old
grandfather, whom he succeeded, was
bitterly opposed, not only TO such an
early marriage, but also to an alliance
with a family whose achievements ana
ambitions have been no more strenu-
Gus nor Intellectual than those OF
flock of butterflies. The young duke
has nevertheless followed the incIina-
tions of his heart, and, though his
wife may not be a Marchion-
ess of Salisbury for brains, she
is a beauty of the first class, lady OF
wit. ready tact, great enterprise ana
blessed with the looks and the gIts
that will give her the leadership among
the queenly hostesses of this regal sea-
son.
Lady Grey Egerton.
The Americans now in London take
an infinite pride and interest in one OF
the smart hostesses who halls from the
United States, and who does the land
of her birth every credit. This is Lady
| Grey-Fgerton, who as Miss May Caro-
lyn Cuyler, married Sir Philip Grey
Egerton in 1898. Lady Grey Egerton's
| beauty Of feature and coloring is be-
! yond criticism and she has all the crisp
! wit and sweet friendliness of manner
| typical of the we'll born American Wo-
man Usually she lives at her hus-
bands country seat, Oulton Park, near
old Chester, but last winter she rented
and set in order splendid old house
in Berkeley Square that is said to be
quite incurably haunted and for the
coronation season she is going to en-
terrain her American friends especial
ly Very often this fair lady has been
seen of late driving in Hyde Park, ac-
companied by her remarkably beautiful
twin sons, whose romantic names are
Philip de Malpas and Rowland de Bel
ward These boys were born in 1895,
and have inherited their mothers fea-
lures and coloring.
The Countess of warwick.
Another lady, whose personality is Of
| intense interest to Londons visitors, Is
that blonde and enterprising social ia
vorite and hostess, the Countess of
Warwick. Though her eldest son, Lord
Brooke, was sent out to South Africa
year ago, and though her only
daughter Lady Marjorie, is just about
to make her debut at one of the court
receptions, Lady Warwick is as fresh
as girl and maintains her youth as
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