VAGARIES OF THE QUEEN=MOTHER.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1013, 31 December 1910, Page 5

VAGARIES OF THE QUEEN=MOTHER.

ROYAL DIFFERENCES, 1 "I have, not hitherto noticed stories current pointing to difficulties in high quarters arising out of..the~vagaries of the, Queen-Mother," -writes Sir Henry Lucy in his weekly letter to the Sydney "Herald." "They 'are,, Jiowever, too persistent to be overlooked. Shortly after'tho death of King Edward friotion was apparent in the disposition showed By his widow to maintain even something, more than lier ; former preeminence. When the neiv King issued the customary address to his people, the Queen-Mother got one out on her own account. Remaining in residence in Buckingham Palaco she insisted on flying the Royal Standard, compromise; being grudgingly arrived at by the iij-' vention of a new standard all her owti. ,It is said that: the influence of her sister, the Empress-Mother of Russia, is responsible for all this unpleasantness. Tho latest demonstration is a demand that tho, Queen-Mother, should t>e placed on a footing o{ equality wjth tho Queon Consort. To yield tho pas on State occasions to' one who for many years was, by' comparison. with her .estate,'a person of no consequonce, is a bitter trial, In Russia tho oode of etiquette that rules at court places the Empress-Mother on the level of tho Tsarina. The' two sisters have agreed that the same system should, prevail at the qpuj-t of St.. James's, but have not yet succeeded in inducing King George to sop cyo to eye them in "this stupendous matter." 1 "