Royalty In France

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 154, 26 March 1938, Page 5 (Supplement)

Royalty In France

French Officals Study Court Etiquette

‘'Dominion" Special Service—By Air Mall. London, March 4. QUESTIONS of etiquette which arise during the planning of a function at which Royalty are to be present may be tricky to deal with. It will take years of experience in court circles to master the subject thoroughly. So we can sympathise with the French officials responsible for the grand reception which is to be given to our King and Queen when they visit Paris next June. Those whose knowledge of etiquette and procedure for such an occasion has grown somewhat rusty are now studying the matter anxiously. The French capital has not welcomed a British sovereign since King George V went to Paris during the war and is determined that the reception given to King George VI and. Queen Elizabeth shall be the most brilliant ever accorded to foreign sovereigns. M. Maurice Loze, newly appointed to a post somewhat similar to that filled by the Duke of Norfolk at the Coronation, is working day and night, drafting a brilliant programme for the Royal event. It is announced that Court dress will be worn, which means that Republican Paris must change its trousers for Court knee breeches, forgotten since France’s Imperial days. Then, a suitable lodging-place must be found for such important guests, and Paris has at last decided that the King and Queen and their Attendants shall stay in a 15-room suite in the Palace Of the French Foreign Office on the Qua! D’Orsai. Priceless' Louis XVI furniture, lent by the Louvre and other State museums, is to embellish the apartments.