KING AND KAISER

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 138, 7 December 1912, Page 16

KING AND KAISER

ANXIOUS MONEY-LENDERS. One of the most piquant chaptprs in Mr. Edward Legge's "King Edward in His True Colours" deals with the relations of the King with t-be Kaiser, and reveals clearly and uncompromisingly the permanent breach and antipathy which existed between them. "In reality," Mr Legge declares, "the personal relations of King and Kaiser lapsed into calm only when they were apart from one another . . . the restlessness, the eccentricity, the tinaccountability of the nephew being a constant source of irritation to the long-suffering uncle." An instance was furnished by one of the visits which the Kaiseiv made to this country at a moment when Queen Victoria was indisposed, and the duties of host devolved upon the Prince of Wales, as the King then was. To the emissary who was arranging the Imperial tour the Prince eaid, in effect : — " I will do all I can to make his stay here agreeable. One condition, however, I should like to make : •it is that he should not bring with him Admiral Herr -, who, I have heard from a reliable source, has spoken of me in derogatory terms." What was the Prince of Wales's disgust when he saw, among the very large suite which the Emperor brought with him, that Very man ! On one occasion the Prince, fancying that Professor Vambery — for whom he had a warm regard — was neglected in his own country, made a point at a dinner in Budapest of entering the room ,with his arm linked in that of the professor, saying: "Ladies and gentlemen, of course you know my friend, Professor Vambery.'' OF his mots a few examoles are given, and it was he who applied^ the nickname of " Citron " to the Prince of Orange, a son of the late King of the Netherlands —a sobriquet by which he is still-re-ferred to in the legends of the bttulevards. When on the Continent, and in a lesser degree at home, the Prince of Wales used to be " pestered ' and i plagued " by people anxious to lend him money. In Paris the nuisance became so intolerable — the Hotel Bristol being besieged night and day by "touts"— that His Royal Highness had to complain to Lord Lyons. The latter laid the matter before the Prefect of Police, who gave orders that in future any man or woman (for there were lady "touts") coming to annoy the Prince on such an errand should be forthwith treated as a vagrant arid a vagabond and locked up. , ... As a matter of fact, the Prince was J not "hard up" at all, and all the rumours afloat to that effect were absolutely groundless. ~ |