The Washington herald., 1911-12-31
DUKE OF NORFOLK RANKS
HIGH AMONG NOBILITY
MRS. EDWIN H. CHENEY.

| Much has been said and written about
England premier duke and earl heredl-
tary earl marshal, and chief butler Of
| Great Britain, that great, small, robust
and bearded man, who stage manages
! that nations pageants. The Duke of
Norfolk's weIl-known full beard, his royal
air, his kindness and charm of manner
his romantic second marriage to the
| twelfth Baroness Herries, and the late
though Immensely welcome. arrival OF
his son and heir, the now three-year-old
Earl of Arundel. when the duke was more
! than sixty, all are common history, for
somehow the great Catholic duke has
the power to inspire as we'll as to hold
! the imagination of the public.
At the Amounting or two kings he has
marshaled the professions. He managed
Queen Victoria two jubilees, and he ar
ranged the funerals of that Queen. OF
King Edward and that of the Duke of
Clarence Cwho would have reiGned in his
brother Georges stead had he lived).
Norfolk deals in big affairs. sad and gay,
and it is perhaps Oh that account he
stands out so clearly among other mem
bers of the peerage. For he is not poll
tiCian, he neither hunts nor shoots, nor
goes in for any of those expensive pur-
suits reserved for the high and mighty
of the land
During the anti-Iords campaign the
Duke of Norfolk. in a speech at Ashby-
de- la -Zouch, referred to himself as in
the unfortunate and disreputable posi-
tion of being a peer" but it is more than
likely that the ajOrity of Britons would
be willing to shoulder such misfortune"
and ''disreputability," If thereby, too, they
could take on the dukes vast wealth and
the many mansions of our dear son,
Henry, Duke of Norfolk" as the Pope
designates his grace.
1t was not until the death of his in
valid son by his first wife, the late Lady
Flora Hastings, that the duke married
his present wife. The first issue of this
marriage was a daughter, the Lady Mary
Howard, second heiress to her mothers
baronies of Herries and Maltravers, and
three years after that came the long
looked-for son and heir. Lord Arundel.
Norfolk House, in which recently this
wears Christmas charity bazaar was held,
takes UP a great deal of space in st.
lanes square, London. not far from the
HeraId's office, where the duke trans
acts his pageantry business. 1t IS, of
course, very gllded and very gorgeous
within. and always very spick and span
without In its garden in the rear of 1t
stands a little bit of a house built in
1861 in which George Ill was born.
The recently discussed effort Of the
Spanish Princess Eulalia remainds one
that royal authors are numerous. Eng
lands list is quite a long one. Queen
"Bess" wrote learned comments upon
Plato. and many translations from the
classics, a study of philosophy that did
not hinder her from sending a sister
Queen, and her favorite, Earl Essex. to
the ''block" Even the warlike Richard
has been somewhat of a poet, if his con-
temporary chronicIers are to be believed
Edward VI is credited with a most
elegant comedy (Which has not survi-
ved). The works of James I fill two
bulky volumes, and. last but perhaps not
least, there are Queen Victoria's Leaves
from a Journal of Our Life in the High
lands" But the only indiscretion came
from Henry VIII, who was the "Fidei
Defensor''
There have been royal journalists as
well as royal authors. George III con-
tributed seven articles to the Annals
of Agriculture an English monthly
magazine. They were published under
the pseudonym Of Ralph Robinson, and
according to a biographer display a
most profound knowledge of agriculture.
The grande monarque of France, Louis
Quatorze, was a journalist Of quite an
other type. For some years after his
accession to the throne it was his habit
to send anonymous political articles to
Paris dalies. Some of the ideas he de-
Tended were so advanced that the youth
full King had the secret pleasure of see
ing them vetoed by his censor, who sup
pressed the issues OF the papers con-
tanning them more than once.
Chief among royal journalists undoubt-
edly was Napoleon III. The emperor who
had been writer through all of his
early and checkered career, was very
fond OF the daily press. As a prisoner
at Hamm, in the Prussian province OF
westphalia, he wrote for the Progress
du Pas-de-Calais. He did the same while
at the Elysee Palace as President of
the French republic. And he continued
this practice as Emperor in the Tulleries
and after his downfall again as a pris-
oner at wiIhelmshoehe, and later in exile
in Camden Place in England. where a