Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-14

who will be present at the coronation,
outside those who can boast of personal
intimacy with King George and with
Queen Mary, are those who have married
British peers and who are, as peeresses
of the realm, entitled to an invitation,
unless something has occurred, in the
nature of remarriage to commoners,
marital separation, divorce, theatrical
antecedents, etc, to interfere with their
appearance at court. Thus, those who
have received the much coveted royal
summons to attend in the Abbey on June
% in their red velvet coronation robes,
barred with bands of ermine, according
to their rank, and carrying in their
hands the silver gilt, velvet lined, ermine
=bordered coronets, which they will place
on their heads only at the moment when
the Queen is being crowned, are the
Duchess of Roxburghe, who was Miss
May Goelet. of New York, and is one of
Queen Mary,s American personal friends
the Duchess of Manchester who was
Miss Helena Zimmerman, of Cincinnati.
Ohio, and who sailed with her husband
for England from here only some weeks
ago, after spending a couple of months
at Palm Beach with Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
eriek w. Vanderbilt; the Marchioness of
Dufferin, who was miss Florence Davies
of New York. and whose husband is the
head of the Consular Department in the
Foreign Office; the Countess of Aneas-
ter, who was Miss Eloise Breese, of New
York. and whose husband only quite re-
Gently succeeded to his fathers many
honors and estates; the Countess of Es-
sex. who was Miss .Adeia Beach Grant,
of New York: the Countess of Granard,
who was Miss Beatrice Mills, daughter OF
Ogden Mills, of New York, and whose
husband will. as Master of the Horse to
the King. play a very important role in
the various ceremonies and official func-
tions connected with the coronation:
Lady Cheylesmore who was Miss Eliza
beth French, of New York and Tuxedo
the Countess of Suffolk. who was Miss
Daisy Letter, of Washington; the Coun-
tess of Tankerville, formerly Miss Leo
nora van Marter of New York: Lady
Abinger, widow of the late Lord Abinger
and daughter of Commodore George A.
MeGruder of the United States Navy;
the Countess of Donoughmore, daughter
of Michael Grace of New York, young
Lady Decies. who was Miss Vivien Gould.
of New York; Lady Richie, whose
father. the late Louis Jennings. was for
number of years editor of The New
York Times Lady Monson, wife of
Lord Monson, and who. as the widow of
Lawrence Turnure, of New YorA. is a
daughter of the late General Roy Stone.
l. :. A.: Lady Marlborough who was
Miss Grace Carr, of Louisville. Ky. !;
Lady Leith of Fyvic. who was Miss
g I nj,
man. who was Miss Marion Graham, of
New York. and widow of Henry Cabot
Knapp when she married Lord Bateman:
Lady Greville, a daughter of the late j.
w. Grace. of New York and widow of
Henry Kerr when she married Lord
Greville.
Cora Countess of STAFFORD. formerly
Mrs. Samuel Colgate of New York, has
forfeited her status as a peerless by mar
rying. in troisieme noces her present hus
band, Martyr Kennard who is a COM
moner. She will therefore receive no
summons to the coronation as a peerless.
but ii is understood that she will receive
a personal invitation from the King and
Queen to be present in their private box.
in recognition of the hospitality which
she has dispensed to their majesties on
several occasions at Houghton Hall, near
Sandringham.
Invitations to the royal garden party
at Buckingham Palace do not necessitate
previous presentation at court. They
were first instituted during the reign of
Quesn Victoria for the purpose of en-
abling her to show some sort of civility
to people who for one reason or another
are barred from official presentation at
court. Thus, Mrs. Kendall and Lady
Tree, both of them actresses still on the
stage, as well as Ellen Terry have
usually been included among the guests
at these garden parties; and Queen Vic
tora. King Edward and Queen Alexan-
dra, as well as the other members of
the royal family, have always made
point of being particularly gracious and
kind to them. AT the last garden party
given by Queen Victoria prior to her
demise all the members of Pan-Angli-
can Episcopal Congress then in session
were asked to attend, although none of
them save the English prelates had pre-
viously been presented at court: and
King Edward paid similar compliment
10 the members of an international Or
astrological congress in London, by in
vitng them en- bloc, to garden party
at Windsor Castle, on which occasion he
entertained the late Mark Twain, who
had never been officially presented to
him at court.
Men at these garden parties are ex-
pected to appear in frock-that is TO say,
Prince Albert-coats. and tall silk hats,
with trousers according to taste But the
Labor members of Parliament have oc-
casionaly been seen at the garden par
ties of their sovereign in sack coats and
wearing hats either of soft felt or of the
derby order. Nor were they any the
less kindly greeted by their royal hosts
on this account; while the unobtrusiye
garb of their wives attracted in some in
stances more favorable comment on the
part of the two Queens and of their
daughters than the most extravagant
creations of the leading London and
Paris couturiers worn by women of the
smart set.
With regard to the balls and other en-
tertainments given by Lord and Lady
Derby at Derby, House, by the Duke and
Duchess of Devonshire at Devonshire