ROYALTY AND ITS PURSE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 3, 3 January 1903, Page 3

ROYALTY AND ITS PURSE.

The story which has been going tie wand ef the' press that the King and the Queen had no money to put in the offertory when they were at tie Service at St. M's, recalls many similar stories h> the history of Royal houses. A correspondent of the "Manchester Guardian" tells, for instance, a similar nMap in the experiences of William and Mary. The King and the Queen; says the chronicler of the period;

were kneeling by the rail of the altar, and the service had reached tne point when their first offering, consisting of twenty guineas wrapped in a piece of rich silk, should be fit The envelope was there, but ™ gold was not. The Great CharawlMn and the Lord Treasurer demanded of each other the guineas, Nt none were forthcoming. The wnrari pause was at last broken ™ Lord Danby, who drew out his Fjwe and counted out twenty for the King." have often heard that when there *» a whole restaurantful of Emors and Kings in Paris during the o? n? OSition of ' 67 there wasn't all- I 1? who had enou Sk **1 Jpn Mb pocket to pay the big £°i* hen » "a* presented by the JmEf* However < the W« w a* SIf 3 Pid by ° ne of the e - Qer lnea the next day.

who been described as a man slon'S 1S riot y to obtain possess££**"' has lOSt P°"«h»