Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-02
AT STEPS OF THRONE
Social Triumph of American
Girl in London.
FRIEND OF PRINCESS MARY
Sits in Royal Box at the Coronation
Ceremony.
AT GALA PERFORMANCES
Fifth Avenue May Not Receive Her,
But She Has the Entire at
Windsor Castle.

Special Cablegram to The star.
LONDON, July THAT truth is ever
stranger than fiction has again been
demonstrated, this time by an American
woman, who might, without excessive
vanity. adopt Caesars device, II came,
saw, I conquered modifying only the
middle predicate into II was seem"
Perhaps never in the history of Gotham
has there been such a conspicuous in
stance Of one who stood disconsolate
without the gates OF 9Th avenue coming
to London and reaching at one bound a
place upon the very steps Of the throne
of the social heavens.
Fifth and Madison avenues may be
closed to me-" sighed this particular peri
as she sailed from New York a couple
of months ago, but I'm young and pretty,
and there are other worlds to conquer"
Now she can boast that Buckingham
Palace and Windsor Castle are her de-
main by right Of conquest. and she snaps
her fingers at the ''plutocrats" who turn
ed their backs upon her.
Sits in the Royal Box.
One American visitor. we'll informed as
to the whole affair, is the author of a
cast.
THE lady of the house Of mystery in
Park avenue said he, now dates her
correspondence from Buckingham Palace.
To the ward of a Chicago street rail-
way magnate, who burrowed under
ground in London. has been allotted a
place in the royal box at the West
minister Abbey coronation ceremony"
A couple of months ago there arrived
from New York an American woman, I'M
married, unchaperoned and relatively
young (she is thirty-five. but hardly
figure, handsome face and radiant red
hair.
She had friend at court, q French
woman. who talks that language with
Princess Mary and acts as French secre-
tary and reader for the queen.
Wins Princess Mary's Heart.
The American on her arrival called
on her friend at Buckingham Palace.
There she met Princess Mary. who took
an immediate liking to her charming
American visitor, the latter treating her
as girl and not as a princess
The queen herself fell under the Amer
leans destinations, and the latter's
visits to her friend became frequent.
In a little while Princess Mary, aged
fourteen. had given the American her
each other Mary and Emile" and
there was nothing Mary was not ready
to do for Emile
Among the things she did was to OBJ
tain for Emile an invitation from her
mother to a seat in box set apart
for the use OF the king and queens
special guests at tho coronation cere-
mony in Westminster Abbey.
The gala performances at the opera
and His Majesty's Theater were also
bnnnrod nv E,rni1iAS nFoSoncA and. at
the latter. she sat next to the Duchess
Of Marlborough.
The last and supreme Joy OF the
American visitor is to come next week.
when she will have the honor OF CIV
ing a special party for Princess Mary
at her own home in London-that is a
house in Hartford street, Mayfair.
where she has retinue OF American
negro servants. seven in all. Several
ROYAL highnesses and very restricted
ramber of their majesties' special
friends will be the guests of the visitor
| from America.