Evening star., 1923-02-16
BY MARaUIsE DE FoNTENOY.

England's reigning family has since
Lloyd Georges sensational abandon
ment of the premiership (as the re-
suit not of d defeat in the house of
commons, but of a caucus of the NAL
contents of his party in the Carlton
Club from which q number of his
close adherents We're excluded)
taken many opportunities of showing
it's very kindly regard both for him
and for the members of his family.
On the day following his resignation,
the Prince of Wales went out of his
way at a great public function in the
city OF London to make a display OF
friendship and even of affection, pat
tins, him on the back and whispering
a few words TO him which brought
tears to the little WelShmanS eyes,
and whe n the Lloyd Georges had com
pleted their recent SoJourn IN SPAIN
where by the direction of King Al
fonso they were treated with the
utmost distinction by the local au-
thorities, Queen Ena, who was an
English princess. sent a charmlngly
worded invitation to Miss Meagan,
the favorite daughter of the ex-
premier and his constant companion,
asking her to stay at Madrid with her
for a week or ten days as her guest
at the royal palace.
Miss Meagan's father is said to have
been deeply touched by this gracious
and unusual compliment on the part
Of the Queen of Spain. and in view of
all the abuse to which he has been
subjected by his political adver-
saries in England, and by so many OF
his former friends-people upon
whom he has lavished favors-he IS
mot likely to forget the kindness OF
tho royal Spanish couple.
Slams Castle in Aberdeenshire and
the estate associated Herewith, en-
bracing some eight thousand acres,
was until a. few years ago the an
cestraI home of the Earl of Enroll,
twentieth of his line. and as heredi-
tary lord high constable of Scotland
outrankins all the dukes of the
northern Kingdom. 1t was sold four
wears ago by Lord Enroll TO Sir John
Ellerman, the great shippiag mag et
nate, Sir John, however, does not
seem TO have got on well with MS
tenantry. For ne has placed It on
the market once more. and has orered
to dispose of it for any sum around
s4p.Oe0. Yet it should have no diff
Guilty in finding purchaser at very
much larger price. 1t is magnincent
old stronghold, the park stretching
along the Aberdeenshire coast for
eight or ten miles and presenting
wonderfully picturesque appearance.
1t was granted to Sir Gilbert Hay, the
ancestor of Lord Enroll, by King
Robert Bruce, six hundred years ago.
II comprises a famous golf course at
Gruden bay, where ex-Premier AS
ouitfi on q memorable occasion was
Violently assaulted by militant suf-
fragettes. The castle Is perched on
the very edge of an extremely precip-
itous rock overlooking the North
sea.
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DR.. Johnson on his famous pilgrim
age through Scotland was Hospitality
entertained there by the Earl of Err
roll of the day. He made but a sorry
return for the kindness which he had
received by complaining bitterly In
print of the bleakness and coldness
of the atmosphere. and of his inabil-
ity to sleep a wink owing to the roar
of the waves under his window and
the fishy smell of the seafowis' feathers
with which his pillows were stuffed.
1t is said that Sir John Ellerman,,
Following the example Of Lord Enroll,
will leave to the new purchaser of
slams Carte by way Of an attraction