ITEMS OF SOCIAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 1514, 9 November 1912, Page 6 (Supplement)

ITEMS OF SOCIAL NEWS.

[tP.Oit THE SOCIETY ViPI.RS.j " l.rvsv hug.'* "" Turkey not." ' xriu hear.'' and the -Gaby glide ' chillies ha' been tabooed at the convention of N" England . dancing masters, who •lee-wr* them to ho a reversion to savagery. Sochi v has been much imei e«u.-o ja; lately iu the report that Prince*. Heat o; Bat-tenberg, is about to many a gait The future husband of Her Royal iiig! i.ess, is said to be a commoner, and tfact that he lias made the whole of > -' immense fortune «n trade, adds intc:e»-. - the report. It has been stated that ts. consent, of the King would be to this marriage, hut, this is not so. sine the veto of tin- Crown only extends t ihc.-e in the direct line < i sue- ess-cci. in tin- even; of Staked _ tic. s,._ h -ir. acquired for the l'nn- • t V*-"•••• tiie mest private m.ider.co m the rn«.tropin w»uid revert to the Key..! uses :or ali.c it was built. Thougu the then Mar.;u: of Stafford found the taoue} ._ station House was built tor the habitation ox to second son of George 111. Ihe Duke •> York died before- he took jK<ssessu>n, an> the thrown lease was sold to ;» \ ictorua Duke of Sutherland, in 1841, under . special Act of Parliament, for £72.CCO-"b.trc-l*" the cost of .ts ercction. Ihe Leu.--stands on Crown land, and the Duke <• Sutherland pays a trro'.iral rent •"•: not ta; short of £1000 a j -mix. .>!> rough was tat- crorstng treat c ot, ana **'• v.'-ope:.:a*geii teat it took Vater Alexandria a day or two io recuperate, excellent tailor taoagtt st:;- i.-». iic. Majesty is itow settieu at tividore. v. here b.-.c" founu a cfianauy surprise aivauxns her. Tsis wil> nothing less titan a brananew villa, in the most characwr.st.e Nor-W'-giiui style —at.d tne isom-t-gjaa villa is as c;a*ri»ct«nstte- ;is the Sv.t.-s chaiet— which Uas. tK-eii arreted daring tier absence, in tr.e Hvi-it.rc Tae architect J.. Use Queen c-f v.ay, wt.-a conceived the idea, drew ail t;.c pi rats, and superintended tne erect ion <■: aie little building, which is complete in every detail—even to the architect's .signature on put ot the beams. The Queen makes it a rale to wear out such costumes as she possesses while staying at Balmoral, and it is rarely that .-no oruers any new dresses while she is there. .{When she returns with the King to London, she devotes some time to the selection of new outfits for herself and the. Princess Mary, and both their wardrobes are then considerably- replenished. Her Majesty wei«rs her dresses more frequently than is generally understood, and tiiey aro often altered * and .retiimmed. Her Majesty allows herself a certain amount, a vear for her clothes, and it is only upon special occasions that she permits herself to exceed this. When her clothes are finailv finished with, she disposes of them to those in attendance upon her, while she sends large parcels of her own clothing and that of Princess Mary* to several charities in which she is more particularly interested. Her -Majesty takes comparatively few. dresses with her to the Highlands, and a correspondent of the Ladies' Field, says that it is rather amusing to note that some of the ladies who pass a week or so at Balmoral take with them more luggage than Her Majesty deems necessary for a stay of several weeks. Mr. Henry Jacob Delaval Astley, the lurk less aviator, who was recently killed in trying to avoid a- crowd, was the owner of the estate and old Elizabethan mansion of Chequers Court, in Buckinghamshire, a .seat around which clusters a host, of stirring and romantic memories- William Haw trey, who formerly owned the mansion. was a persona grata with Queen Elizabeth and her ministers, arid, as in 1565, when he was finishing Ids building operations, a place of detention, not- quite amounting to a prison, was needed for one •of the ladies whose misfortune it, was to Jiave Tudor blood in her veins, Hawtrey urds entrusted with the disagreeable office •of custodian. Lady Mary Grey, sister to the unfortunate day-Queen Jane, and inheritor of her claims, had provoked ■Elizabeth's wrath. Nothing aroused the Virgin Queen's ire more than the courtchips and secret, marriages that. went on in her palaces. Lady Mary committed the unpardonable offence of marrying in clandestine fashion so lowly a gentleman as the sergeant porter to the Queen, and so j in September. 1565. the Lords of the Council wrote to William Haw trey that Elizabeth had appointed that, the Lidv Mary should remain with him and not, ""go out of his house abroad except it be necessary to take ve aire for hir helth." She was j Co be allowed only a single -/rc/cm and woman, and even her table was to j e thriftily spread, for Hawtrey was to j See "tliat she be not dieted otherwise than j shall be convenient for her sustentation." Chequei a Court was closely associated with Cromwell, for Sir William Russell, u one- I time owner of the mansions, married a daughter of lie -Protector. Oliver's portrait* and relics are now among the moat treasured objects there. Of these, Cromwell'.-. sword and a plaster mask of his face, taken in his lifetime are tile moat interesting. The tradition that Cromwell himself resided at Chequer." proves to be ■without foundation.

Tbr<<; Hoy a I hoi'.V'.; •>( Ktiiop»; are r.i'i/> ri ii:g Wmj 10-s of i:;< ruber? i>; tut families. Ire circumstin-:'"-; in which «.n- death occurred, that »£ tii-? I.'Hiintii. Maria Teresa, the favririle r>i»u;r of Kim; Alfonso <<i <Kpa;:j, ur» particularly ?><i. Ifr-r Royal Highness, wi'i ••.■;!-! Tip; .-■"'■<»!, daughter of 'hi: late K; i. Aiicn.-u X If. a::d Queen Man a < 'bri-'liin. and v.%.t bom r> 1882, i'h;- tour year; o'-i'-r 'i-.-n 'lie?- brother. She was niaiTii.'l v, }»..• cousin. Prince Ferdinand of !'<•■ \.l ■ , (who in 1905 i,... I become. a net.u:-.,!:>cd >|,:u,in.! dj, J.tou</rv, 1906. "■'»**!'- - *.!.•{• ddirw -. if! : <,• the It ova! families <>' >> ;nit and Bayiuie ineluded jewels said i.. :e»ve been worth £100,000. A j"i;i was horn to tit" Prince and Princess in Decern bei. 1906, and a daughter in October of L.-d year. A second daughter was bo; on the loili of September, and tin.- Princess v. ;.•< ebout to get up for the first time after t/;»-» birth of the child when she fainted. Her rnaid hastened to summon Prince Loirs Ferdinand of Bavaria, .who is a member o; the medical profession, and husband of the Tnfanta M.iria do hi Paz, but v.heu be entered the Infanta Teresa's room lie was only able to pronounce life extinct, death having ensued as the result of an embolism. The members of the Royal Family were informed of the tragic event, and hurried to the scene. They were plunged ■into the most profound grief, and the Queen Dowager was disconsolate. At first she v.iin unable to bring herself to believe thai her daughter was dead, insisting that sho was only asleep. King Alfonso is deeply affected by the loss of hi? sister. ; In her will the late Infanta Maria Teresa j said that her body was not to be em- j balmed and she expressed the wish that there should be no flowers or wreaths at I the funeral. The interment took place at j El Ksrorial. Lnorniou:; crowds tinned out to witness the sad ceremony, sufficiently testifying to the immense 'popularity of the deceased Princess. J lv :i melancholy ' coincidence, the Princess died. at the same ! hour as her sister, the "Infanta Maria dc ! la Mercedes, Pnriwss of the Asturias. who i married Prince Charles of Bourbon-Sicilv. i ' and whose end came in the autumn* of ! 1904. after the premature birth of a child. ! During the months thai, preceded the ; posthumous birth of Alfonso Mil., in ; 1886. the Princess of the Asturias, then a ; child of five, was actually Queen of Spain, > her mother, Queen _ Christina. being. of I course. Regent, Prince Ferdinand, who' was the son of Prince Liidwig Ferdinand of • Havana, by his marriage with the Infanta | Maria <le fa Paz. aftid who boa the title of Infante of Spain, had to renounce all | claims lo the Throne of Bavaria and his ; Gorman nationality on his marriage. ;