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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVII, Issue XLVII, 11 April 1912, Page 5

It is expected that the Princess Royal will in future be known by that title alone, and not as Dowager-Duchess of Fife. It was only four years after the accession of King "Edward that his eldest daughter received the title of Princess Royal, although it is well known that his late Majesty had been anxious, to confer it from the beginning. The retiring disposition of Her lioyal Highness had, however, made her reluctant to receive the dignity.

It is not only the Russian Court journal which has a circuitous way of referring to the Czar. Even in conversation Russians never call a Czar a Czar. It is not incorrect to use the terms Czar, •Czaritza, and Czarevitch, but in practice they are heard only in the liturgy of the orthodox church, and sometimes from the lips of people of revolutionary views. In ordinary conversation the Czar is called Gosudar, a word which means lord or sir. In the Court circular it is the practice to term the sovereign Gosudar Imperator, the Lord Emperor. Nobody ever speaks of the Czaritza; she is always Gosudarinya., the Lady, or Gosudarinya Imperati'itza, the Lady Empress.

Probate has now been granted of the will of Sir George Henry Lewis, the wellknown solicitor. He opens his will with the following statement: —"In the course of niv professional career, and especially during the last 4o years, many matters have bcs?n confided to me, the delicate nature of which, apart from considerations of ordinary professional honour, imposed the necessity of absolute secrecy. Statements having been made at various times that it was my intention to publish my reminiscences, I hereby declare that such statements were and are, without foundation. For over 40 years I have kept- no diary, and I leave behind tile no documents or memoranda- from which the confidences reposed in me can be revealed."