The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-30

shoe heels and her rather high Golf
ture are included. So that the differ
ence etwcen them is not really so
very great-not much more indeed
than existed between Alexandra ari
King Edward The lattor's stature was
8 feet Z l-2 inches in his s,ock!ngod
feet. and n feet 5 l-2 inches whcu
booted; while Queen A~lcxandra's, COT
iure and heels included, is ) feet 10.
kin9 Georges height is identical with
that OF his first cousin. the Car {
Russia. and superior By at least twv,
II not three inches. TO that OF the King
of Italy: whereas Queen Helen OF Italy.
like the younger OF the TWO Impressed
Of Russia, is AN unusually tain wo-
man.
The Hon. Robert Dou~glas-Scost-
Montagu. whose affairs have again
been engaging the attention OF the
bankruptcy court in London. and who
spent several years on this side OF the
Atlantic, in a mantfestly unsuccessful
~endeavor TO acquire "a knowledge OF
business. is the eldest son and heir OF
Lord Montagu, OF BeauIieu. owner ard
editor Of The Car Magazine. tie
foremost automobilist In the United
Kingdom. ini;iator of the late King
Edward into the sport. and for severai
Gears connected with the royal house
mold, as supervisor of all the roy-I
motors and chauffeurs.
Lord Montagu has been a war cor
respondent OF the Times. strokea mis-
college eight at Oxford. has travelled
extensively in China and Peru, has
snot big game III the Rockies and IN
the far Northwest, and is d noted
yachtsman. lie is like wise one OF tae
best amateur Photographers in Eng
land.
He owns two OF the finest country
seats in the United Kingdom. One OF
these Is Ditton Park, near Windsor.
a stately, moated mansion, of cast.l-
lated Gothic style. which belonged 10
the crown In the sixteenth centur,,
and was the residence for a time CT
King Henry vi. james /. presented IL
TO his Secretary OF State. Sir Ralph
WInwood. and II afterward passed ~
marriage to the M~ontagus. When tile
daughter and heiress OF the last Duke
OF Montagu welded the third Duke OF
Buccieuch. her dowry Included Ditton
Park.
Beaulieu. Lord Montague's other
country estate, in the New Forest, is
built on the site OF Beaulieu Abbey,
which in the middle ages Afforded
sanctuary to Queen Marguerite, OF
An)ou. the unhappy wife OF Henry vi,
and also to Perkyn Warbeck.
The young bankrupt's sister. the
Hon. Helen Douglas-Montagu created
something of a sensation about eisf.-
teen months ago. by joining the theat-
rical profession. under the direction of
Sir Herbert Tree. making her debut
Mt His Ma1esty's Theatre. She and
her brother are grandchildren, through
their mother, of the ninth MARQUIS of
Lothian, while their ather's srani-
father was NTH Duke OF Buccleuch and
Q~ueensberry.
In the death of old Mrs. Won WI
thenau. at her chateau of Hohenthurin
In Germany. the reigning houses of
Austria, W~urtemberg n Prussia, as
well as Queen Mary OF England, have
lost 4 relative. The chatelaine of that
wonderfully picturesque castle was a
daughter of the late Count Alexander
of Wurtemberg, so famous through
out as a poet, and a grand.
daughter of the royal Duke william OF
Wurtemberg: while one of her grand
mothers was q princess of the house
of Hohenzollern. Moreover. her Only
son, colonel in command of the Sec
ond Saxon Lancer Regiment. is mar
ried to Countess Antoinette Chctek,
sister of the Duchess of Hohenbcrg,
and Is a brother-in-law therefore OF
Archduke Francis Ferdinand. the next
heir to the throne of Austria Hungary.
The sister OF the Duchess OF Hohcn-
berg, Antoinette by name. must not be-
confounded with that other sister.
Countess Henriette. who was Tilted IN
the very eve OF the date set for the
wedding, by Prince Stanislas Radzi-
will. Countess Henriette never got
over the affair, and is now one of the
Danes Chanoinesses or Lady Canon
esses, of the Empress Maria Theresa
owen for noble women. In the royal
palace Of Hradschin, at Prague.
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