Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-02-02
The King a Litigant.

yesterday in an English civil court, where the
king of England was plaintiff in an action for
the recovery of damages for SANDER and libel.
Despite Georges royal and knighty prerQgatlve,
the case went through all the forms Of law as
if he had been the lowest citizen in all BritOn's
broad domain--an empire on which the
never sets.
The details of the case are rather romantic
and go back to the days when George-the sail
prince, whose destiny then evidently lay with
ships and sailors and matters marine-was sta
toned at Malta with his ship. Malta, it must
be borne in mind is Great Brtan's Mediter-
ranean naval station. Admiral Seymour, who
commanded the Mediterranean fleet, had home
at Malta at the time, and there the sailor prince
the story was later told, met the admiral's
daughter. Time hung heavily for the young
people at this far-off seaport, and the prince
whiled the days away telling the maid of his
adventures; of disastrous chances, like unto
Othelo, and of moving accidents by flood and
field; and so, as did Desdemona aforetime, the
admirals daughter
That heaven had made her such man.
And babe me, if l had a friend that lov'd her,
| should but teach him how to tell my story
And that would her.
And so, as might have been expected, the
prince and the maid married. No particular
opposition made to the union by the princes
family for at that time Clarence, the Prince
expected that George would ever ascend the
British throne But when Clarence died the
trouble began to brew. No commOner, however
worthy in character and charm, could sit on the
throne of Elizabeth and Victoria. The marriage
must be dssolved-this was the mandate of the
old queen Victoria And what the old lady
said was law in the royal family The couple
were divorced, and George later married Clar-
ence s affanced--the present queen.
This is the story it has been going the
rounds for years. But George has always de-
MED its truth, and when enterprising jour
nalst recently published it in Partisan period
zeal the king promptly instituted a libel suit.
With what result the dispatches in yesterdays
Bonanza narrate.
The significant feature of the incident is the
contrast it presents between what the king did
today in this democratic age of equal rights
and what we easily imagine he would have
done few hundred years ago under similar
circumstances. Today, despite all the halo with
which king is hedged, His Royal Grace APP
pears at the bar OF justice and sues for redress
of his wrong with ceremony than would
Piers the Plowman. In the days of the Plant
agenets, when they strutted around with a
cocks feather in their cap and great long
sword by their side, yesterdays offender would
have been hailed into the Presence-no courts for
so mean varlet-and His Royal Nibs would
have ordered the mans ears cut off and thrown
him into gloomy donjon hold, with a crust of
bread and pallet of straw.
We have advanced some since then Kings
no longer-except in the of Bill of Ger
many-rule by divine right. We don't lay so
much stress on this amounting business, with the
holy chrism Instead the king toes the mark
like the lowliest citizen of his realm. When
Charles head was cut off by the Roundheads,
and James was ANONYMOUSLY booted from the
throne, common people began to realize that
kings were subject to about the same vicissi-
tudes as the rest Of And at times little
more so.