The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-26
DIPLOMATS ARE HE
 HOSTS AT DINNERS
Functions at Foreign Lega-
 tiOns and Embassies
THE CHURCH SERVICES
English Catholics Join in Reoicing. The King and Queen Begin Another Week of Festiv-
 ities Today

London, June 25.-According to the pro- gramme in connection with the corona ton arranged by the foreign office, this evening was set aside for the entertain ment by the resident diplomats of the special representatives of their countries. All the embassies and legations there fore gave dinners which were largely family affairs
 ihat at the German embassy was the most brilliant. Crown Prince Frederick William and Grown Princess and Prince Henry of Prussia and the Princess be- l ing the principal guests Among thosa who dined at Dorchester house, the res- l idence of Whitelaw Reid, the American ambassador, were John Hays Hammond the special envoy representing President Taft at the coronation; Mrs. Hammond and Miss 'Hammond; Mrs. Robert T. Ba- con, wife of the American ambassador at Paris; Richard c. Keerns, the Amer | ican ambassador at Vienna and Mrs. Keerns; John Rigley Carter, the Ameri- can minister to Roumania, and Mrs. Car ter; Consul General and Mrs. Griffiths, Lord and Lady Sandhurst, Col. James, Mir. and Mrs. W. E. Dodge, MT. and Mrs. Charles P. Taft and Miss Taft, Maj. Gen. Greeley, Rear Admiral Vree- land, MT. and Mrs. Templeton Crocker and Miss Jennie Crocker, who are stay ing at Dorchester house, and MT. and Mrs. Murray Young of New York
 In honor of the visit of Special Envoy Hammond to Dorchester house the decor ations. which were one of the greatest attractions of the past week, were again illuminated.
 MT. and Mrs. Hammond gave a lunch con at Stratton house, the guests includ- ing the hereditary Princess of Saxe- Meiningen, sister of the German emper- or, Baron Roden, of the staff of the Princess; Ambassador and Mrs. Reid, MT. and Mrs. Charles P. Taft and the mem- bers of the special and regular em- bassies.
 Hammonds Go to Windsor
 Later MT. and Mrs. Hammond went to Windsor in royal motor with other cor onation visitors and looked over the palace.
 They repaired from there to Baron Leo pold Rothschild's to attend a garden party. This was one of two important functions of the kind, the other being given by John Norton Grffiths, M P, to the colonial visitors. Both, however were spoiled by continuous rain, which obliged the guests to stay indoors.
 The foreign churches in London, as well as the English churches, held coro- nation thanksgiving services. That, at the Roman Catholic cathedral of Vest minister was unusually impressive. It was the first opportunity for more than two centuries that the English Cath olics had had of joining their fellow countrymen in rejoicing at the corona tion of a monarch, without feeling re- sentiment that the dead hand of by-gone prejudice made the occasion one of con- demnation of the central tenets of their faith.
 A Notable Service
 It was notable and large congrega- ton, including the Duke of Norfolk, the Earl Marshal of the coronation ceremo- nies, who Is leader of the English Cath olics, with many members of the house of Howard, the Earl of Denbigh, the Earl of Kenmarc, Lord Seaton, Lord Granard, many members of parliament. numerous members of the foreign coro- nation missions and non-Catholic mem- bers of the aristocracy.
 At the conservation of the host, the Pope's envoy to the coronation, who led the service, surrounded by dignitaries of the Cathedral, knelt at the high altar and offered prayers for the King and Queen.
 Later Archbishop Bourne gave a lunch con in honor of the envoy, at which the Duke of Norfolk and other distinguished personages were guests.
 The King and Queen will return to London tomorrow to begin another week of festivities, including gala performances at the opera and his majestys theater, another royal progress through North London. a chidren's fete at Crystal Pal ace a garden party at Buckingham pal ace and numerous important social func- tions.