The Washington herald., 1913-02-25
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

,CuIyright 1913 by Court Gossip Syndicatc.l
King George has held the investiture
ceremonial for the New Years honors
at buckingham Palace. IT was largely
attended function. He was assisted by
the lord chamberlain. the lord steward.
the master of the horse, the keeper OF
his privy purse, the master of the
household. the comptroller in the lord
Chamberain's department. the members
of his military household, and the lord,
the groom, and cquerry-in-waiting.
Half an hour later the King proceeded
in state to st. James Palace. where he
hold the first lever of the season in the
Throne Room. receiving the members of
the diplomatic CORPS and high state dig
nitaries Those who had assembled to
have peep at royalty and the GlitterinC
uniforms were in such numbers that the
''grooms Of the great chamber had
their wo.i- cut out TO turn back in
truders.
There is to be another levee this month,
hut none of the later courts or leveeS are
10 be held until after Easter. There is to
Ice a court and levee early in May,
while two more courts and another lCNce
will be held after the Whitsuntidc holi-
days. All the crremonials of this class
are TO he finished before the King and
Queen leave London in June to spend
Ascot race week in Windsor Castle.
Shortly after his recent arrival at
Windsor from Sandringham. the King
Ceivcd in audience the retiring Rouman-
ian Minister and his successor. Among
the guests whose presence had been
commander at Windsor during the
stay there of the royal pair, We're: Count
Albert Mensdorf POuilly. the Russian
Ambassador and Countess Benckendorff.
the French Ambassador. the Spanish Am
hassador and Mime. de Villa Crrutia.
Lord Haldane. the Duke of Richmond
and Gordon, Lord and Lady Pembroke.
Lord and Lady Leicester, Lord and Lady
lveagh, MIR. and Mrs. McKenna. Col.
and Mrs. Seely, Mr.. and Mrs. Brrell.
Mr.. and Mrs Winston Churchill. Mr. and
Mrs. Lloyd-GeOrEe, Mr.. and Mrs Sydney
Buxton. Sir Rufus and Lady IsaaCs. Mr..
and Mrs. Runciman. Sir Claude and
Lady Macdonald. Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred
Lyttclton. Mr.. and Mrs Austen Cham
berain, and Sir Colin and Lady KeppeI
Those who are invited TO spend few
days with the King of England at Wind
sor Castle sometimes are apt 10 he over
come by the grandeur they find there
In cases Of first visits there has often
been noticed shNness akin to stage
fright. In the reign of Queen Victoria
guests were commanded only TO dine and
sleep At tn" castle; hence. all they saw
OF their royal hostess was comprised i'm
few moments conversation in the great
drawinG-roOm after dinner unless they
happened to be seated near the sovereign
at the dinner table.
But all this is altered now Guests are
hidden to stop two or even three days,
and. therefore, see much more of the
King or Queen than in former times The
question Of dress always is a trying
problem with ladies Commander TO ap-
pear at Windsor Castle. for instead of
acquiring only smart evening
toilette and suitable jewels for a .'dine
and sleep visit OF one night, quite a
trousseau has to be. taken along for
three days stay with royalty. No par
tiCular dress is required upon arrival the
guests being shown at once to their
rooms, but the following morning it is
absolutely necessary to appear rather
smartly dressed for breakfast, which at
the castle is quite formal meal.
Then another change of toilette is pre-
scribed when the hour arrives to join the
hunters at luncheon and yet another up
on returning TO the castle for : o'clock
tea Every night, too, a different toilette
must be worn suitable to the royal sur
roundings. and, Of course, proportionatc-
" expensive
All during the last week before the
French election the Paris papers had
been urging the candidates to declare
themselves, but the loudest of all have
been those at the service of the Mon
archical Pool a revival of the Boulang-
list combine. The publicity they called
for would have enabled many financial
newspapers to make their own terms with
The candidates-either to defend or not TO
attack. Those ladies of France who pre-
Sented flag. through the medium of
the Duchess dues. to the Jeanne dare
man-of-war; the railways and other great
companies; the Bonapartists of Brussels
and those hanging on to Monaco-are
said TO give the sinews of war of the
pool, TO be used. however. with caution
and discretion. Attempts also have been
made to secure wife for the Orleanist
Pretender. the Due de Montpensier. in
the imperial family of Russia.
The Due de Orleans all but succeeded
in securing funds by the sale of his for
est of "Eu'' to the state for 12.o00 600
francs. In 1906 he offered to sell it for
100000. Since then he has sold all the
trees planted by his great-grandfather.
King Louis Philippe tEgaliteI. between
1919 and 1915, and has raised large sums
on mortgages. The promoters of the sale
in the Chamber of Deputies first got the
press TO make propaganda for the pres
ervation of all forests The foresting of
mountains and high and barren table
lands really is what is wanting. and not
the preserving of one of the lowest parts
of Normandy, near the sea coast. The
whole thing reminds one of the Jecker
affair in Mexico promoted by the Due
de Morny. Nothing was said at the Pa
tais Bourbon (the Chamber of Deputies)
on the encumbrances on the "Eu' es-
tate. Z.
The mouthpieces of the Pool cry out
against the election of a good bourgeois
paterfamilias. France. they protest,
must have a first-rate man at the Eiysee
TO speak to Europe.
1 am no hater of kings. but it seems
to me that Presidents Loubet or Fallieres
deserved international esteem much more
than did the late King Leopold; and that