The Washington herald., 1913-01-11
COURT GOSSIP ON SUBJECTS
OF GREAT GENERAL INTEREST

ring that has existed for years between
the Lombards of North Italy and the
Wallisians of the Southern Tyrol on the
Pc and Adiga boundaries, the Kaiser
has accomplished nothing short of q
miracle by patching UP their differences
and thus giving a new backbone to the
top-heavy dual monarchy. besides giving
the Balkan situation quite a new turn.
st. James Palace. where the peace dele
gates are meeting, sheltered distinguished
guests in 1914. when the allied sovereigns
went TO London to take part in the peace
rejoicings. The state apartments were
fitted up in magnificent style for the ac-
commodation of Gar Alexander l and
King Frederick William III of Prussia.
The first Emperor William. then boy
of seventeen. accompanied his father.
this being the first of his many visits to
England. The famous Butcher was
lodged in a house on the west side of the
ambassadors court. Here he spent part
Of every day OF his visit, seated at one
Of the drawing-room windows. smoking
a huge German porcelain pipe. and bow
ing to the crowds who flocked to see the
"Conqueror Of Napoleon
st. James Palace had among its royal
memories that of what, IL imposture, was
the greatest imposture in British history.
mere on June luy 1919, was Dorm the OIu
Pretender-an event which precipitated
the bloodless revolution of five months
later. There is a contemporary plan of
the palace, wherein are the dotted lines
that show the way of the infant (said
to have been carried in a warming PAM
to the Queens bed chamber. Much the
properest place to act such a cheat in
declared the Princess Anne of st. James
Palace. But the "cheat''-if such II were
cost James his crown.
ST. James was the scene of another re-
royal birth besides that of the
Old Pretender. In 1877, Frederick, Prince
Of Wales (whom his mother described as
the greatest ass and the greatest liar
and the greatest canaille and the greatest
beast in the whole world'). was living on
bad terms with his father. George II. I'M
Ger the paternal roof at Hampton Court.
The princess, being about to give birth
to her first child, the prince, to spite his
ia Their. who had made due preparations
for the event, hurried her of in a chaise
by night at full gallop to the empty Pal
ace of St James, where the child was
born an hour after her arrival The in
suit to the King and-Queen and the dan
ger to the mothers life completed the
princes disgrace. King George ordered
the court and foreign ministers to boy
colt him.
Henry VIII, when he built St James
Palace. designed II for a country resi-
ience. to take the place of the manor at
where he had been in the
habit of going for a change of air. He
pulled down the hospital dedicated to ST.
lanes the Less. and on its site built a
yoodly manor. and made a faire parke
'or his greater comoditie and pleasure"
The palace, as / narrated the other
q In ha r,fA Of fall o r-nlI
stocked with game. and these were in |
closed at its private demesne. Even |
while residing here, Henry held his court |
irst at Westminster and then at White |
TALL, after he had enviously taken the |
after palace from Wolsey. II was not |
Until 1887, when Whitehall was destroyed |
" fire. that St James Palace became |
he London residence Of British mon
Irchs. FLANEuR.