The Prince of Wales '
It is a matter of gossip am<mgHhe officials at the Inventions' ' that this Prince and Piinc^^fn^&lfp hare not once been able to private dinner here without the $orld having a paragraph recording! if^x including the names of the guests? and what they had to eat. The Prince is uot well pleased at this, "Mr 'Edmund ' Yates will be glad to know, 4or~ih» editor of the World is piqu'<s °at tK* Prince's studied neglect of jiiin> n( ; The Prince was angry with Mr Tatos-ejrer . the Lonsdele business, and j*f used /to meet him. Considering how liberal the Prince is in regard to thei persons; Jie ' does meet, how catholic his tastesare, and how amiable his general character, his Boyal HighneWs snub ofr Yates is keenly felt. Mr Yates, however, shows no petty animosity. He. merely puts his clever scribes en the^track of the Prince, and chronicles such of his ' doings as he knows the Princ* would like, to have unrecorded. Sometimes Mr Yates writes the paragraphs himself and chuckles over them in his pleasant way. Recently, for example, the Prince, visiting a distinguished musical composer on kßjmfojF^wiitd ehterfained with ootnjc. operatic, muspo. Mr Yates published an account of the affair, and described the oratorio and other sacred music which was given by command of the Prince, whom he reported as enjoying it very -muchi' The best of it was that hardly anyone; but the Princes'* friends and Mr' Yates' friends understood tfie subtle joke. 'Many leading newspaper^, It is an open secret that several pro^ minent persons did not attend the dinner given to Mr Yates because the Prinoe had expressed a wish that they should not do so* But- we live i'l diplomatic age. The Prince is very forgiving. I would not be at all but- - prised if one of these days he included Mr Yates in the Marlborough House, dinner party, for instance. He seems bent on having everybody lor his friend, from the humblest member of the Bavage Club to the bluest-blooded member of Brooks ; and he is success fuL . There is no BnyKJinnn to-day more popular than the Prince of Wales—" except hit %&•,» as am Irishman would say. "-'
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Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 65, 10 November 1885, Page 2
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365The Prince of Wales ' Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 65, 10 November 1885, Page 2
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