The San Francisco call., 1910-04-24
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BRITISH RULER in
.PEACEMAKER' ROLE
King Edward Adjusts Many So=
cial Differences in Society
of England

LONDON, April 23.-Two dukes have
scandaleuse" of London lately, and in
the case of one of them, it is said the
Intervention of the king was necessary
to prevent a public sensation.
1t was long ago suggested that the
name by which the present monarch of
England would be known in history
was Edward the Peacemaker.'
His influence has certainly been ex-
erted in this direction on several occa-
sions recently One of the most con-
spicuous instances was concerned with
couple whose matrimonial relations
had never been particularly happy. for
very soon after the marriage the lady
bluntly told the husband that he was
intolerable-a Judgment with which,
curiously enough, the great majority of
people agreed. Matters were patched
up for a time but couple of months
ago the wife went off with an officer in
the guards in so open fashion that
even the London papers referred to the
elopement discreetly. The husband was
at the time in the public eye. for he
had been standing for parliament and
had contributed large sums to the lib
eral party's funds, with the object of
obtaining a peerage. He possesses the
title of baron, but it is an Austrian
one.
KING ADJUSTS MATTERS
The scandal, of course made his am
bitions for an English title impossible
of realization, for the time being at
any rate, but the king took personal
| interest in the matter, and at his in
stance the lady came back from Blar-
ritz, whence she had fed with the
guardsman, and with her husband is
sued joint invitations to big party
which, it was understood. his majesty
desired should be we'll attended
| Some American papers which related
! the story of the elopement in full, CIV
ing names and other particulars, are
! thr eatened with actions for heavy dam
ages if they can be sued under the
| English libel laws.
| -, In ducal affair in which the kings
Intervention has had a happy result
preventing a public scandal, the boot
was on the other leg, in the sense thai
| it was a duke and not duchess VINO
was the offending party.
| He is one of England's wealthiest
dukes and has had a somewhat lurfo
career since. as a young man, he sue
ceeded to the title. He was cited as one
of the correspondents in a recent cele-
brated divorce case, but the ducal title
saved him from appearance in court
He had, in the meantime, been married
to a girl to whom he had been engaged
| prior to the affair.
ACTRESS LATEST FLAME
His latest fame has been talented
musical comedy actress, who not Ions
| ago played in America. He is reported
/ to have Iavished a good deal of his
great wealth upon her, and she has
certainly lately been wearing some
wonderful new jewels.
Just when matters were reaching
such pass that people were beginning
| to expect a denouement of a nature
which could not have been kept secre
the royal peacemaker" is said to have
intervened, and the duke went away tC
pass the Easter with his wife on the
Riviera.
"A Ducal Boor' is the heading which
a London paper gives to the paragraph
in which 1T refers 10 another grandet
whose careless indifference to his youne
bride is the subject of considera bl'
comment.
The other day the duke came out o.
a West End photographers pulling
the door to behind him. though his wife
was close upon his heels, and got int
his waiting motor car, leaving the lady
who had brought him his fortune t.
scramble in as best she could. In thi:
| case 1t was a Scotch and not an Ameri
can fortune that the duke obtained.