COURT DECORUM

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXI, Issue 4952, 6 February 1937, Page 4

COURT DECORUM

DIVORCED PERSONS BARRED. LIST OF GUESTS REVISED. From a Special Correspondent). (By Air Mail). London, January 16. Buckingham Palace officials are already preparing the lists from which invitations will be sent out to such functions as presentations at Court, Palace banquets, garden parties, and the Ascot race meeting. As is usual under the reign of a new King, the officials are reviewing the lists of those previously invited to such functions. Guilty parties in divorce cases will not be invited to royal functions. Hostesses of the type which the Archbishop of Canterbury criticised in his broadcast after the abdication of King Edward will also be omitted from the list of guests. Debutantes who have been conspicuous at wild cocktail parties will be cut out. So will hostesses who have invited doubt-, ful people to their own private parties. Dowagers who make a living by chaperoning debutantes for fees, and undertaking to get desirable introductions, will also be barred. It is expected that Queen Mary will play an important part in the new social reign that is about to start. The King will hold the first levee of his reign at St. James’s Palace on February 9. This picturesque function is the start of four busy months for the King and Queen until they are crowned in Westminster Abbey on May 12. The levee will be followed by two investitures at Buckingham Palace on February 24 and 25. At these the King will greet those not only in this country but from the Empire who will have special honours bestowed on them.