Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-01-15
Especial Correspondence.)

Especial Correspondence.)
ONDON, Jan. 6.-When King Ed
ward aScended the English
throne there were lots of people
in London and elsewhere VINO
remembered his gaiety and bohemian
ism as Prince OF Wales, who smiled
knowingly and said. Now we shah
see a reign that will recall that OF the
merry monarch of blessed memory,
and there were also lot OF people
who shook their heads and expressed
the fear that all the good u, VI queen
Victoria did in raising the lUoral tone
of court life would now be undone.
both were wrong, Ior although Mus
Edward has restored the gaiety OIL the
court to a great degree and has gone
in for royal magnificence and pageantry
in a way that would have shocked mis-
sober economical old mother, ne mas
set up a moral standard at court just
as strict as any maintained by the late
queen. and in addition to that he has
set up a social standard which he IN
sists must be lived up to.
The boon companions OF the FORMER
Prince of Wales who thought that they
would be able to clap the new king on
the back and be hail fellow we'll met
with him, as they were when he was
merely the first subject. soon found out
their mistake. The few who tried IL
were reminded speedily that familiarity
with the king was quite q different
thing from familiarity with more or
less irresponsible man Of the world who
by the very nature of his position was
condemned to a life OF pleasure seek
ing 1t soon become known that whllc
the king was no less truly democratic
than ever in his choice of friends the
men and women he wanted about him
were those who had done something,
and who could be of use to him in his
task OF governing the greatest empire
in the world. One OF the friends whom
he dropped then was Richard Croker,
once boss of New York 1t was all
right for the sporting Prince of Wales
to meet and chat with Croker on a
race track, but it would not look very
well for the king OF England to be ON
familiar terms with the man whose
name stood for the pcrsonifcatlon of a
certain kind of politics. AT the same
time however. he made a friend of
]. P. Morgan whose skill as finan-
cler taste as an art collector and gen.
erosty as a patron of the church, he
much admires.
SPRINGS A. BIG SURPRISE.
1t was as a moral censor that King
one expected that he would be strict
In this particular. 1t soon became
known at court, however. that no one
against whose moral character there
was the slightest breath of suspicion
| might expect to be received. and re-
| Gently he has even carried this form
| of censorship farther by refusing to re-
| ceive either party In n matrimonial
| quarrel. no matter how innocent one
| OF them may be.
| The latest persons to suffer from this
! ban are the Duke and Duchess of Marl-
borough and the duke in particular has
had a rather unpleasant experience re-
Gently. 1t was on the occasion when
| King Manuel of Portugal, during his re-
| cent visit to England was invested
with the insignia Of the garter. This Is
J ono of the most splendid ceremonies in
connection with English court life. and
| an invitation to the garter banquet
which always follows a chapter OF the
! garter at Windsor Is about the most
| eagerly sought after honor in English
| society. Well, neither the Duke nor
the Duchess of Marlborough was In
| vited and In the case OF the duke the
| omission was particularly marked for
as n garter knight ne was present at
the chapter, and had to leave Windsor
| Immediately after, while all the Other
| knights remained to the banquet In
| fact. I am able to state on unim-
peachable authority that the king ser
iously considered whether or not ne
could exclude the Duke of Marlborough
from the invcstiture, but 1t was de-
cided that unless the duke was degrad-
ed from the knighthood OF the garter
he had n right to be present
PARALLEL CASE.
In fact, n parallel case was found in
that of the late Duke of buckingham
whose mode of life so offended Queen