The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-11-15

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his twcnty-frst birthday, and on
IL an anniversary at which lads
who are not OF blood royal are
supposed to attain the age of discre-
ton and become invested, for tho first
time, with civic rights and with tho
social prerogatives OF manhood-be-
come. In word, responsible, fiscaily
and judictally, in the eyes OF the law
he finds himself in the sorry posi-
.tion OF ruler who has lost his throne.
because he did not know how to govern
and who has been exiled by his people
from the land of his biyth.
| Moreover. he has behind him two
singularly unhappy years of reign.
which were inaugurated by his being
himself wounded by the regicidcs who
murdered his father and his elder
brother. seated In the same carriage
| with him while driving through tho
streets of Lisbon; two years which
| were marked by humiliations of every
| conceivable description, by financial
stringency, by ignoble calumnies
| against himself, his mother and bis
,dtad father and brother--calumnie
which none of his ministers or even
OF his courtlers TOOK the tsoupie "
7
| The designation OF "courticr' has al
| ways been invested with certain sig
tniilcance of contempt. by reason OF the
fact that it implies obsequioaas US aa
scribed as time serving. 1t is term
which has been rendered more despica-
| BILE than ever by the conduct OF the
/ djgnitaries of the royal household ana
when the revolution broke out, with
1 one accord deserted the unfortunate
| boy King and his mother thinking
only OF their own safety and welfare
behaving, in fact, IN just the same
manner as the courtiers of Napoleon
I'LL, when, on September 4, 1870, they
| left Empress Eugene entirely alone:
! with Nine. lie Breton (sistcr of General
/ BourbakD, while the populace. thirst
Ing for the Empress pio9 90, was ,shi IN
1 she was saved by the Austrian ana
| italian ambassadors, Prince Richard
Metternich and Count Nigra. who founa
the two women completely deherlea
and entirely abandoned
There are so many Countesses OF
Rosslyn. the present earl having three
to his credit and his widowed mother
being still alive and IN the ehlos'n .sai,
4 OF the title. that it may be Just as Wen
4 to explain that the Countess OF Rossiyn
| who has just arrived In the uniteu
states, reaching New York BY the Adrl-
attic. and signing herself Georgi anna
/ Countess of Rosslyn," is the second
and American wife OF the earl. her
marriage with whom was sundered ~
a divorce granted three years nEo. one
Is the daughter OF George RopIhs Oh
#lof Minneapolis: was known on lne
stage as Miss Anna Robinson" in New
York and in other American cities; ana
! made her theatrical debut In me hctt
lucky Girl Miss Anna Robinson a,
the time of her marriage. was ereI' y ~
T. trh
RossIyn had but recently been gazellee
bankrupt. this being the third occa,
sion OF his being iudicialiy proclaimsd
iinsolvent. The union between t snr
PAINTERS did not last long, and although
she succeeded in obtaining from MIN .
divorce in Scotland on sta.ulo .ss
4 grounds. yet the trouble between ,he
4 two seems to have had It's orig IN ~ fa NJ
4! demands upon her purse and her ia s
lure TO receive social recognition ~ -, .,s
sisters, the Duchess OF sutherland. w
Late Lady westInoreland. and ms hal, : !,
sister the Countess on t:oTao Oh emo
4 Since the former Miss Anna Ropl llsi,,
! divorced the earl he has married az
not to the Mrs. Frederick !. "a n ~. &c .
who figured in the divorce case aS nus us
irespondent. and who had left her nus,
hand CAPTAIN Saunders. In CONSEQUENCE
~ solemn promise on the par "
4 Lord Rosslyn to wed her when lfee;
4 INT a Miss Vera BayleS, aauStt.G ~, =,
Edward Eric Bayley. LORD fo N,.,,er >
flrst wife was Miss Violet N yani,.
1 daughter of r. C. Vyner OF N ,.,maI
Hall Ripon. and Of Lady Mary =, ss aari
and since her divorce from tn ne s e, : !.
che hag become the wife OF Gaariss
4 Jarrott. of automobiling fame. .+.,e
Lord Rosslyn has been on inc s.asi . .
lin this country. under the patr In,har
1 NJ Erskine and has a younger p ,.o,'a :,
the Hon. Titzroy Erskine, VINO NJ Is, ~.
American wife, daughter OF hei,.
Baker. of San Francisco. ana n,ahe T.,
his home nj 'Caroubiers, near Eho' ~ ~
the Altes Maritimes Department IN t''s
South of France.
Godfrey Barring, who arrived la ,s
4 week on board the Adriatic, Is ,licn ~
4 her of Parliament for the lsis "a =
wight, and makes his home az supla
4 House. Cowes, familiar to every 4Nnert-
4 can who has attended the Cowes rega.-
. ia. and is one Of the, leading y a,ented
A men In England. having been eiec'eo -
LAT the age of twenty-one-that IS "
"A say, near a score of years ago,-1n EN-.
her OF the Royal Yacht Sauedrooin n a
distinction which others sonnet times
have to wait nearly lifetime 10 NJ
tain. and which many noted yachtsmen
never reach. He Is son OF ola zen