Claimant to British Throne.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 4 August 1910, Page 4

Claimant to British Throne.

INTENDS OCCUPYING BUCKINGHAM PALACE. An egregious pretender to the British Throne hnfl turned up in America, this % time in Brooklyn, where he calls himself John Goorgo Edward Wett-in Guelph, and is announcing that'he has written a letter to Mr Asquith, Mr Balfour, Lord Rosebory, Mr Winston Churchill, Mr Lloyq-George, and Mr Redmond, declaring his cool intention of residing at Buckingham Piilace. Of course, nobody takes Wet tin Guelph seriously, not even the Yellow journals of the United States. Ho is a perfectly harmless lunatic. In his message to ."Both Houses of the British Parliament, the British people at Home and abroad, and every citizen of the civilisied world." ho says:— "I, John George Edward Rex, of Great Britain and Ireland, hereby extends—greeting and desires —to express my grateful Appreciation for the courtesy and sympathy vouchsafed to me privately and through the public Press in tho bereavement which it has pleased Almighty God to bring upon me and the British Empire in the death of his late M<ijesty Edward VII."

At the present moment lie believes that Mr Asquith desires his presence at _ Buckingham Palace inoro .than King George does, for the pretender ling discovered the solution of the exist ins impasse between the Lords and tno Commons. "Tell us how you would solve the problem," asked one reporter. "Oh, that's easy," replied the claimant. 'My proposal provides that Bills passixl by the Commons and vetoed by the Lordß shall bo submitted to an Imperial Parliament composed of seventy Privy Councillors, the sovereign to preside. That will soon restore order ait. St. Stephen's." This issepressible imposter, who a year a 2O was ttvned out of one of the Fifth Avenue hotels as a suspicious person, does not think liis scheme will go through unless lie himself i 9 one the spot, jind, accordingly, he and his wife, who has begun to call herself the exiled Quoeiij talk of taking a transatlantic trip this summer. They may plan a tour in Scotland, but if they do cross the ocean, which is extremely improvable, they are far more likely to land in Scotland Yard. He goesootton t to indulge in a lot of rigmarole in which lie says he was born at Windsor Castle in 1860, Queen Victoria ■, promptly sending him and hie mother into seclusion. He became an inspector of police in India, and has been prominently identified with the Church of England in the Burmese peninsula.