The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-27
GOSSIP ABOUT
ROYAL ENGLISH
inside Gossip About the Court of st.
James Gathered by United Press
Representative From an
Attache.
RICHNESS is A "RoTTER
Queen Alexandra VIII Stay Away
From the Coronation of Her Son
And There's a Reason
For Her Conduct.
IBy Charles P. stewart, London Cor.

IBy Charles P Stewart, London Cor
respondent Of the United Press.
LONDON, March 27.--Whenerer
want little of the inside gossip of
the court of ST. James, / pay visit
to friend of mine who is attached to
the royal suite there. No, friend is too
strong a word, Even acquaintance is
a little too strong. Perhaps the best
way TO express it is that the attache
is graciously pleased to recognize me
occasionally.
The attache never EXPLICITLY told
me so, but ] am perfectly aware that
he doesn't like George and Mary very
we'll For the king and queen he would
lay down his life in a minute But as
in dividuals, he does not approve of
George and Mary. A year or two be-
fore King Edward died. when the
present king was merely the Prince OF
Wales, I heard the attache Quoted
once as saying that His ROYAL High.
ness was IAN awful rotter. and that
Her Royal Highness was termagant.
4 OF course the explanation is that
the attache is survival of the reign
of King Edward. His idea is that Ed
ward was the greatest man as well as
/ the greatest king who ever lived. ANY.
thing that Edward did was exactly
right To improve on the way he ran
his court was and is impossible. This
! is what the attache thinks.
i Now, the court of st. James has
been turned completely bottom side up
since King Edward died. George and
Mary never liked the way Edward
conducted it or the kind of people he
! drew around him. Naturally, the
changes they have made have been
very displeasing to the "old guard
and this particular attache is one OF
them.
Nor is my attache the only court at
tache who looks with unfriendly eyes
upon George and Mary The truth is
that Their Majesties are quite sur
rounded by people who cordially dis
like them. No doubt the king and
queen will weed these enemies out Of
their immediate circle as rapidly as
possible but it can't be done too pre-
lcipitatelx. If they undertook any
wholesale house-cleaning of King Ed
wards old retainers it would create
scandal.
In the meantime it is a very nice
thing TO be persona grata' TO
disgruntled court attache who trusts
YOU not TO go around idly babbling
his name and getting him into trouble
getting him fired, in fact-on &C.
count of the things he tells you.
Is 1t true" asked my attache.
that Queen Alexandra is going to
stay away from her sons coronation
because she was determined 10 be the
whole thing there and it was impos-
sible for King George and Queen
Mary TO let her be-
IT'S true that she's going TO stay
away from the coronation said the
attache. "A least. that's the under-
standing at present. But you may take
II from me that Her Majesty Queen
Alexandra would never do ANYTHING
so ungracious if she could possibly
help il She's been crowded out.
That's the right of it
Why and by whom - l inquired.
BY Mary" answered the attache
bitterly. because she realizes that
her mother-in-law is more popular
than she IS and is determined TO push
her into the background, where she'll
be forgotten
What does King George think
about it, l asked.
Il am sorry TO say that George is
weak man said the attache. careful.
ly emitting the word king" that he
might not be suspected OF speaking
i'll Of his sovereign. and completely
under mis- wife's domination.
Then, it isn't true said I. thai
Queen Alexandria did everything she
could after King Edward died. TO
make her sons and daughter-iu-law
positions embarrassing for themer
There couldn't be a grogger slam
der than TO say she did, cried the at.
taehe explestveiy 7T-hey say she rode
first in the funeral procession and that
Queen Mary's carriage had to tran
along after. Well, why not? Who "a
chief mourner at mans funeral I'd
like TO know His wife or his daugh.
ter.in-law? And his wife il no legs hfs
wife bacause he's King and she a
queen, is she?
Then there was that story thai