New-York tribune., 1910-06-27
NEW ROYAL HOUSEHOLD
George v Honors Many of His
Fathers Courtiers.

tCoryrizht. 1910, By the Brentwood Conos,-
It IS doubtful whether any issue of the
London "Offcial Gazette during the Iast
few years has excited more universal inter.
est than that which appeared the Other
day containing the list OF the appointment,
to the household OF the new King So much
had been sossipped and printed regarding
the alleged intention OF George 20 have
nothing whatever to do with his fathers
encourage and to cut himself conplataIy
aGrift therefrom. that the most sweeping
changes were looked for. and II was gen
orally assumed that The Gazette" would
furnish the indication OF wholly new de-
parture at court and clew 20 the chsrac-
ter of the reign that has just opened
No little surprise was therefore mani.
tested when on perusing The Gazstts' IN
question If was found that most Of tns
members o. the household OF Edward VIZ
had been retained in SONS way or other By
his successor. Lord Knollys was reappoint-
ed principal private secretary. in conjune-
tion with Sir Arthur Bisse. and Colonel Sir
Frederick Ponsonby is TO al the sars
Offices Of assistant private secretary and ot
eouerry which he held in the late reign
Another eauerry 70 be continued in ofice
- Colonel Sir Henry Legge- CoioneI si-
Arthur Davidson. who was eqUerry 10 King
Edward has become master OF the heiLs>-
hold to Queen Alexandra. and another of
the late KinZ's squerries. Captain Sir Ser
n1our Fortescue. of the royal navy. becomes
q groom, of the bedcha nber. that is 10 say.
a gentleman-in-uaiting to George Y. Colo
mel Sir Charles Frederick remains master
of the royal household and the Hon John
Fortescue librarian. while the Hon. Henry
stoner. Captain Sir Walter Campbell the
Hon. Sidney GrevilIe and Captain Charles
Cunningham Graham are all continued a.
zrooms of the bedchamber- Sir Donald
Mackenzie Wallace, formerly of The Lon
don Times and Admiral Sir John Fuller
ton remaining on as extra grooms-
Most Of the other gentlemen OF King Ed
ward VII have been appointed extra equer-
ries. including Lord Marcus BeresfoTd. Colo
mel Sir George Holford. the Hon John Ward,
Colonel Henry streatheld. Colonel Count
Gleichen and Colonel the Hon. 4 Fuike
Greville The meaning of the appointment
to the post Of extra equerry is this: That
its holder retains his connection with the
royal household. with all the privileges and
prerogatives of the Office. the uniform and
the aiguilIettes OF the ordinary equerry
and the entree at court for himself and MS
wife. but without drawing the pay Of an
eauerry. which amounts 70 5000 a wear
and without being called on TO perform any
duty save in the event Of emergency. such
as, for instance. a coronation. state funeral.
etc To most of the men who have received
from King George the appointment of sK-
ira eauerry the question Of pay Is matter
of profound Indifference But il Is a great
privilege In their eyes to be allowed to re-
tain the office of equerTy. with all its pre-
negatives and social prestige and none OF
its work For the duties Of what is known
as an equerTy in ordinary. that Is to say.
in actual waiting, are very exacting. re-
ouiring during ones term of service con-
slant attendance on the monarch. uLfail-
ing good humor. the subordination OF al
ones own sentiments. views and preJudIces
to those of the royal master. and with all
that the knowledge that the equerry. az
the shadow OF his royal charge. is pri-
marily responsible to the reigning house, 10
the government and to the nation for his
protection from all harm.
Edward VII had such an abundance OF
vitality, was so insensible to fatigue ard
was so constantly on the go that in spite
of all his consideration for those around
hirp he used to wear his equerrfes out and
in hfs later years the older members OF his
household were no longer able to stand The
pace and were forced to give way to
younger men.
What attracted. however. still more at
tention In the list of household appoints
ments than the names included therein
were the names omitted therefrom- George
V had rea appointed so very many Of his
fathers retainers as members OF the house
hold. either in an active or in an honorary
capacity. that those who failed to recsI=s
this manifestation of royal favor and re-
gard naturally became the object Of r.
mark Among them arc Sir John Lister
Kaye, who was groom Of the bedchanlber
to the late King, and whose wife is an
American woman. sister of the late Ouch
ess OF Manchester and Of Fernando
Yznaga. of New York. Nor have Sir Arch
ibaId Ednnondstone and Montague Eliot.
who married last week Miss Nellie Post
daughter OF Lady Barrymore. by her for
mer marriage with the late Arthur Post. Of
New York. been continued as grooms or
the bedchamber, or in any other capacity
their connection with the royal HOUSEHOLDS
being severed. as has also that OF Colonel
Cuthbert Larkins, who has plotted so many
American people into London society and
court circles.
Nor can I find the name Of AIeck Yorks
among the members of the new hins .
household, in any capacity, and with nm
there vanishes from court its most britt
liant amateur actor and inimitable n1innc'
who used to make the late Queen Nictofta
laugh till the tears came by his Inirnicfs
of the various people of the royal house
hold and OF the statesmen and other dishl-
tarfes who visited Windsor and Osoorn7-
For Queen Victoria. in spite Of the ar u
austerity which characterizes most of her
portraits had keen sense OF hurnor anu
of ridicuIe. and it Is said never enJoSea
herself quite so much when. on one oo.
casion. at the mischievous suggestion o.
her daughter, Princess Henry Of bat'~'
berg, and in obedience to her own coH
mands Aleck Yorke. in fear and uem
bling actually took off the august old iaO3
herseif-that is 10 say. mimicked her To hSi
very face.
Aieck Yorke is the now sexagenariah s''
of the fourth Earl OF Hardwicke. and was
auuerry to the late Duke of Albany IL W's
owing to his services to the duke 'ia-
Queen Victoria, after the latter's death' az
pointed Yorke to be one of her gToofns-in
that Is TO say. gentlemen-ln-Vai'
ing, an Office in which he was con5inn9u
by Edward VII when he came 70 'A'
throne.