THE KING AND THE SMART SET

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1186, 22 July 1911, Page 11

THE KING AND THE SMART SET

.SOME INTIMATE FACTS. Some very intimate fact's about King George, written by a close friend, are to be tmmd in an article in "T.IYs Magazine for June:— «'7\\°- Court to-day," says this writer, at Windsor is to an extraordinary extent a reproduction of the Court as if existed in tho fifties. It is a Court which is primarily a family. livery morning the lather and his children are out riding f "* n . e owning the family partv difrrlfv 1 C U? fr ° m H '° l ,ilrtipS of " Kin B fnr , a i-' A 'ir- (linncr H W sit together or a time talking. At ten o'clock thev rnnm a T| CnCh -° ne g ° illß to h, ' S nr ]m (hn f K C l ~S, ,S V-° ' b '' i(lKe ' ~Or an >- of tho fashionable dissipation ;a dear to the smart set. Tho King always retires at ten and devotes liimjelf to bufiness. He is ii laborious worker. He has the phenomenal memory of his grandmother. He reads every dispatch on foreign affairs. ™~,n- !T Ver i ? ny , il,l Portnnt document comes botoro him he reads it aloud ia-nlv MT* 11 ""'airs the King is not iikel} to take any active parf. Ho speaks trench not very well. Ho speaks German not at all, although he can read it with a bad accent. It is remarkable that King George is the first King of his dynasty who has ever spoken En B lish" like a native. King Edward had a certain German note in h,s voice which is entirely absent from that of King George It is easy to see how the two currents -the smart set infuriated bv their loss of the sunsiino of IJovaltv, and the counter faction, not less furious Wa,.4 it has to pay the penalty of tho insanity which rejected tho Budgot-by comWn , . ing their forces can produce in certain circles a semblance of unpopjilaritv for the King. Ihey are imooteut. to injure but they can always fall back upon the irdy C Sn O eerw b el',. Be,,Jami,l Backbite a " d

toriau Court A certain laxity which passed imnohced in the late rei K 'h-j s disAeful to him. Although personally ono of th .f. m ° st . Penerous of men, nn <l liber" with that fine spirit of liberalitv "S •°W l ?}" S n M \ hand kn ™ "hat his rißht hand doeth. lie has all his Brand