TRAGEDY OF ETIQUETTE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1061, 25 February 1911, Page 11

TRAGEDY OF ETIQUETTE.

• A commonplace tragedy, not a secret to her friends, lies behind tho death of Lady Wolverhampton. On tho occasion of the first state visit of tho German Emperor to the court of his nephew a reception was held at A\ indsor Castle, whither nmonfj others were bjddeii all the King's Ministers and their wives. Sir Henry Fowler, as ho then was, accampauieil by his wife, obeyed the command. After dinner tho King and Queen, the Emperor and Empress, together with the general company, foregathered in tho drawing-room. Had tiio lloval personages seated themselves, feebler folk among tho company might discreetly have followed their example. It happened that, owing to stiffness of the knee, Queen Alexandra, having seated herself, had somo difficulty in rising. She accordingly, during tho later years of her husband's reign, stood throughout receptions, however lengthy. Thus it happened at Windsor. As tho Queen remained walking or standing, no ono clso might sit. , It is truo that, owing to tho considernto and ingenious tactics of a group of his colleagues in tho Cabinot, Sir Henry Fowler furtively obtained an interval of rest in a" chair in a distant corner, his colleagues concealing tho breach of etiquette by standing before him. Lady Fowler-arid.tho rest of tho company remained on_ their fcot for a period approaching in length the two hours during which Royalty remained. She was immediately after seized with an illness which exiled her from social functions, ending in her death on Saturday. To ordinary folk it is incredible that these things should be. That tho custom i 3 not- of recent origin is proved by tho ea'si> ofFanny Burney. In her diary is fqlitfd reputed rceord pf':tho"physicnl

anguish sho suffered, being compelled to stand by -the hour whilst in attendance upon Iter Hoyal mistress, tlio wife of George'lll, Majesty itself, corpulcnt and complacent, being mcamrhilo comfortably seated.

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