Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-20
Forgiven by King Edward
for Breach of Confidence

The striking fact that the. King OF Eng
land. forgiving, fOrgives with kingly gen
crosby. was probably never more dra
| matically shown than in the case Of the
| Dowager Duchess of Manchester.
Two years ago at Biarritz the duches:
| was said 10 have violated a state secret
i'm disclosing privately" what the Kin,
| in his friendship had told her at a dinner
| there. namely. that his premier. Camp
bell-Bannerman, was about to resign
| and that the present premier. Asquith
had been summoned to Barritz to form
| a new British cabinet.
The duchess never admitted that she
| broke the kings confidence and she never
| denied II. But the king believed it.
The not0Ciety attaching to the breach
of etiuuetS placed Edward in the posi-
! ton of having been automatically indis-
Greet for the first time in his reign.
He had been the friend of the dowager
duchess since she first came TO court as
the wife of the then Lord Vaudeville.
thirty years ago. 1t is not too much to
say that she was made almost the chief
informal adviser OF the king, who had
often declared that he had no one man
I'm his cabinet whose advice he esteemed
as highly as hers.
Her friendship with King Edward and
Queen Alexandra was noteworthy and
unusual. She entertained them at Kerry
House. with other kings and members of
/
other duchess of his court.
An Honorable Friendship.
This honorable friendship was generally
known and openly approved. The duch-
ess was SO tactful, so brilliant and so
wise. that even the naturally resentful
| English confessed her power without re-
monstrance.
But the king declared that he would
fIr bAr of
secret. Campbell Zimmerman was deeply
hurt 10y the announcement of his resig-
nation before he gave IL to the king, and
when the king. returning to London ap-
pointed Asquith in his place, he made il
evident that the dowager had lost the
royal esteem.
For a year and half the famous Amer
lean woman lived in lonely and deserted
state. She was invited to none OF the
kings fetes. and the kings set she had
formerly led was quick to follow the
kings GOODNESS.
Then. in August Of this year. the kine
forgave.
He ordered that her name he placed
upon the guest list at Lord Desborough's
house in Taplow, where the king himself
was chief guest. and later he invited hel
to buckingham Palace, where she had
almost resumed her former position wher
she was taken i'll a month ago.
How the King Forgave.
The king apparently had forgotten that
the Bannerman-Asquith contretempts had
ever come between himself and his friend
He called at her Grosvenor Square
home a dozen times while she lay bedrid-
den. and he kept his own physician al
her size afte. it became known that she
might not survive.
The DOwager Duchess of Manchester
was born the eldest of the three daugh-
ters of Senior Antonio Yzanga, OF Cuba
and New Orleans. Her father, once ex-
tremely rich as a planter in the south,
came TO New York in 1871 almost penni-
less.
In New York a year later Consuelo
met Lord Vaudeville. She was married
TO him in Grace Church with great cere-
mony with the last OF the family funds
and went abroad to begin her wonderful
career there.
Ten years later, however, her father
was again a millionaire and she was
eighth Duchess of Manchester through
the death of her husbands father She
had three children. the eldest of whom.
the Duke OF Manchester. married Miss
Helen Zimmerman OF Concinnati Her
two daughters died shortly after the
death of her husband, the duke, i'm 1895
When her father died. eight years ago,
he left her a fortune Of 100000. Her
sisters contested the will it that time,
but IL was not broken. 1t is believed
that the duchess has left a large part of
her patrimony 20 her American relatives.