Foreign News: Royal Week

Royal Week The spizzz — spizz of atomizers was heard in Buckingham Palace. Bandy-legged lackeys scurried through the musty state apartments, squeezing little bulbs, spraying clouds of “Court Perfume.” Soon the tropical fragrance of this secretly compounded essence expanded and dispersed itself. All was in readiness for Their Majesties Third Court of the present season. The Queen-Empress, seated before her dressing table, pondered the advisability of adding the Koh-i-nor to her already diamond-bespangled toilet. She may have reflected that the Koh-i-nor weighs only 106 1/16 carats. She perhaps yearned secretly for the 516 ½ carat fragment of the 3025 ¾ carats (before cutting) Cullinan Diamond, the chief diadem of the British Crown. Or conceivably Her Majesty remembered that a common “engagement size” diamond (roughly 3/16 inches in diameter) weighs approximately ½ carat. The Queen-Empress, no diamond glutton, donned and adjusted inconspicuously the Koh-i-nor.

The King-Emperor, attired in a military uniform, freighted traditionally with medals, passed with his Imperial Consort through the whole range of state apartments —from the white drawing-room to the red and gold ballroom. Edward of Wales followed, bedight appropriately as a Welsh Guard.

Standing on a dais before the throne Their Majesties submitted, during the Third Court and the Fourth and final Court next evening, to the respectful stares of some 2000 guests. Among those presented were 16 U.S. citizenesses.

Oriental royalty in the person of Prince Yasuhito Chichibuno-miya, second son of the Mikado, deigned to dine last week with able Californian hostess Mrs. Newton Booth Knox at London. Present also was able Californian tennis player Helen Wills.

Prince Chichibu made known in confidence that he will occupy next winter at Magdalen (pronounced Maudlin) College, Oxford, the very rooms once dwelt in by precocious undergraduate Oscar Wilde