A LONDON "PARTICULAR"
I For city fogs, the London variety has (for obvious reasons) claimed pride of place. Here is a striking impression from James Bone's "London Perambulator": Only 20 years ago a man going home about midnight in a fog saw a.glare of torches, and a body of men passed with King Edward walking in the middle. Tho torches were carried by-footmen and policemen; then came the King, heavily wrapped up, with two of nis gentlemen; then more policemen; then some stragglers of the night, attracted by curiosity or by the chance of a safe guide to Buckingham Palace. The procession came so silently out of the fog and vanished into it again that the spectator later in the night was not sure that he had not imagined if. But it was King Edward, who had been dining with a Court lady in. Portman Square, and, finding it impossible to go by carriage in tho fog, had decided to summon torches and a guard and walk, just as a Stuart King would have done.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 37, 13 February 1930, Page 24
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175A LONDON "PARTICULAR" Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 37, 13 February 1930, Page 24
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