Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-14
MRS. P. PALMER
GETS IN WRONG
FALLS OUT OF FAVOR WITH.
EDWARD VII
King Didn't Like Her Buttlng Into
Dining Room for Souvenirs.
Chamberlain Busy Cutting
Down Court List
sneclal cable 70 The Herald.

Special Cable to The Herald.
LONDON April 13.-Thls week So
ciety has been discussing the doings
of distinguished American, no other
than Mrs. Potter Palmer. Society has
not been kind in it's remarks about
the western social leader. Mrs. Potter
Palmer is at Biarritz in the same hotel
as King Edward. In fact she has the
suite of apartments next to the king s.
A good many other well known Amer
leans and English people who want to
bask in the royal sunshine are also
at Biarritz. For a few days every
body made great stabs at getting In
the kings way and he was intensely
annoyed. He does not now know Mrs.
Potter Palmer, and it is doubtful if
he ever will after what has passed.
According to the stories from the
Riviera, some of which have been pub
Ilished both in Paris and London, Mrs.
Potter Palmer tried to get into the
kings dining room one evening after
lhe had finished dinner in order to get
some souvenirs, a menu card and
snapshot of the table and room. She
is said to have heavily trioed the
hotel servants, but the royal English
servants prevented her carrying out
her plans. She managed to secure the
kings menu card, however, at cost,
it is said, of $100. This she exhibited
with great glee to other Americans at
Rarritz. There was so much talk
about the matter that it came to the
kings ears and he, hating such things,
Immediately had Mrs. Palmer's name
put on the taboo list.
It has been known for some time that
Mrs. Palmer was making a bid to Sc
cure leadership of the American circle
in London society. Her first campaign,
two years ago, was very successful,
and she was almost at her goal when
family bereavement caused her hasty
return to the United States. This sea-
son, with the help of her daughter,
Princess Catacuzune, and her son,
Honore Palmer, and his wife, the Chi
cago leader intends to make a big
splurge in English society," The present
leaders are nearly all New Yorkers and
easterners, and they strongly object to
the western pretenSionS of Mrs. Palmer.
Her campaign promises to be a stren-
uous one.
Consuelo (dowager) Duchess of Man
chester and Mrs. Potter Palmer have
found the great Hotel du Palace too
small to hold them both. 1t is an open
secret that the charming Mrs. Palmer,
who is welcomed everywhere in Amer
lea and in Paris, has not been received
cordially in that closely intimate circle
of King Edwards friends that the dow
ager duchess of Manchester adorns.
Certain is it that if the king had op-
portunity to know Mrs. Palmer we'll
she too would grace that intimate
clique, entrance to which is so jealous
ly guarded.
Some gossips here hint that in order
to afford the king that opportunity,
Mrs. Palmer long ago engaged the
splendid suite she occupies at the Hotel
du Palace during the kings stay here.
She has far better rooms and more of
them in the hotel than had the dowager
duchess.
With firmness, tempered by infinite
sweetness Mrs. Palmer rejected any
proposition that she exchange some of
her rooms for some of the dowager
duchess. So the dowager duchess has
left the hotel and taken villa. This
cynical old English general calls "a
strategic move which must block the
enemy's advance"
Perhaps he is right, for of course the
king was informed that the two Ameri-
cans were at points Of daggers, still
sheathed in velvet. and while the polite
duello lasted his majesty, to prove he
knows nothing of it, was conspicuously
polite to Mrs. Palmer.
But since the dowager duchess has
taken villa the king is rarely seen at
the Hotel du Palace. Mrs. Palmer sees
him now only on the golf links.
She is devoted to golf and announces
her intention to play for the kings
prize. But Mrs. Palmer has learned
already that it is far more difficult to
learn golf than to acquire a huge dia-
mond or a fine hotel suite.