The Washington herald., 1911-06-25
PERQUIsITEs OF THE CORONATION


slight that Indian etiquette never would
forgive.
Lord Curzon's appearance a. the most
fitting standard-bearer OF East India was
a great blunder. It cannot help but I'M
press the rajahs maharajahs. sIrdads
eaekwars. &c. that after all they are
mere subjects, and the English press in
India openly blames the King for not re-
jecting the appointment made by his earl
marshal.
The Lady Curzon of this sketch Is first
cousin to her husband. Her father. the
late colonel, the Hon. Montagu Curzon,
was the eighth son OF the frst earl
These Curzons, 1t may be noted. are
among the oldest families of ENGLAND.
Lord Zouche, who Is Nathaniel Curzon,
like Lord Scardale and his son, the for
mer viceroy, bears q title which began
in 1908, and thus is more than 800 years
old, and has had but fifteen bearers.
but which several times has been at
tainted, reversed, abeyant, and restored.
During all this strife the Curzons have
justified entirelyt heir motto: Let Curzon
hoIde what Curzon helde."
1t has not been known generally. or
the papers In trying to print the raft Of
coronation matter have overlooked 1t. but
the statue Of Charles (the martyr) had
to be taken down to permit an easy ne
gotiation Of Charing Cross by the pro-
cession. This is but another indignity
offered that unfortunate effigy. In reality
It is fine bit Of workmanship, and
presents the Stuart King gazing down
Whitehall at the very spot where he was
beheadsd by order OF Cromwell.
1t is also not generally understood that
the present ruler, King George, is the
descendant OF that King Charles sister,
Princess Elizabeth. who became the wife
of King Frederic v Of Bohemia, and
whose daughter Sophia, in 1858. married
Ernst August Elector OF Hanover, whose
eldest son, simply by virtue OF being the
grandson OF the aforenamed British prin-
cess, became King OF England as George
the First, after the death Of Queen Anne
in 1714, who left no issue.
The statue Of the luckless king Is to be
re-erected in a less prominent thorough
fare in the same neighborhood.. 1t seems
as though no one among the royal fami-
ly cares a rap about this shifting OF SO
historic memorial
The Duke of Leinster, who resides at
Maynooth, County Kildare, in Ireland,
has just entered his twenty-fifth year. He
was born at KIlkea castle in 1887. The
duke, who sits in the House of Lords as
yiscount Leinster, is a scion OF the
famous house Of Fitzgerald. and succeed
ed to the family honors on the death of
his father, the nth duke, in 1893 BY
the demise Of his mother. who was the
eldest daughter Of the present Earl of
Feversham. he was left an orphan early.
He is Maurice Fitzgerald. marques, as
well as Earl Of Kildare, in ireland. but
also Viscount Leinster OF buckingham
shire, in England. and Baron Kildare in
the peerage of the United Kingdom. He
Is the premier duke, marques, and earl
of Ireland
The family has been prominent in his
tory from the time OF William the Con-
queror, but antedates that period. The
Fitzgeralds are descended from Dominus
Ohio, Of the family OF Gherardini, of
Florence. in Italy, who passed over into
Normandy and thence in 1857 into Eng
land, where he became so great favor
lite with King Edward the Confessor that
he excited the jealousy of the Saxon
Thames. However derived, his English
possessions were enormous. It strikes the
reader as somewhat remarkable that
dIter tne conquest MS son, waiter t1tz-
Otho, was treated as a countryman OF
the Normans- In 107s he is mentioned in
the Domesdsy Book as being in posses
sion of his fathers estates. He also was
castelar, OF Windsor.
1t was in 1905 that Gerald Fitzmaurice
was summoned to Parliament as first
Baron Offaly. The fifth OF that name was
created Earl of Kildare in 1876 OF him
it is recorded that while an infant he was
at the castle of Woodstock when an
alarm of fire was raised. In the con-
fusion the child was forgotten. One of
the servants, returning in search Of him.
found in one of the towers an ape which
usually had been kept chained, carefully
holding the baby in its arms. In graft
tude the new earl adopted a monkey for
his crest. The Dukedom of Leinster was
bestowed upon James, the twentieth Earl
of Kildare, in 1895 The present duke Is
unmarried. He was a page at the coro-
nation of King Edward. FLANEUR
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