THE KING'S GARDEN PARTY.
The King is by no means indifferent to social obligations for all his natural kindliness and wonderful gift of setting all classes of people at their ease. Sir George Arthur," in "King George V." (published by Cape), describes how in 1918 the Foreign Office informed the Department of the Master of the Ceremonies that as the Russians had "come into line" the representatives of the Russian Soviet delegation then in London were eligible. for an invitation to the Royal Garden Party. Presuming that the Foreign Office had first communicated with the King, the usual formal notice of the party was sent to the Embassy. The King, on hearing of what had happened, said very plainly that the Garden Party was his private concern, that no invitation was to. be sent to Chesham House (the Soviet headquarters), and that the officials who had blundered must make the best job they could of the bungle.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 39, 15 February 1930, Page 21
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