THE LATE KING EDWARD.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 48, 28 October 1913, Page 5

THE LATE KING EDWARD.

SOME ANECDOTES. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright! [United Press Association.] London, October 20. The .richly anecdotal additional reminiscences of King Ed warn., by Edward Legge, published by Nash and Co., are creating tremendous interest. King Edward was a life-long reader of Reynolds’s Newspaper, and when a court official attempted to dissuade him from reading it, on the ground that it was a revolutionary paper, King Edward responded, “Never mind, my friend. I know what the Government thinks, and I want to know what other people think as wdlL”

King Edward’s intimate relationship with the Dudley family is recalled. Lord Dudley’s, grandfather was very eccentric and absent-minded. Dining one day with King Edward and Queen \ ictoria, and liking a choice dish, he forgot palace etiquette, and turning to the Queen said, “You really ought to take some.” The Queen smiled and thanked him. After short intervals he repeated his advice, a second and third time, the Queen finally remarking, “It must be a very high dish. This is the third time you have told me so.” Lord Dudley exclaimed, “Damn the woman, so it is.”

King Edward was distressed when the Dublin Crown jewels vanished. He pulled off his glove and thumped the table savagely, saying, “I will have' no scandals. I’ll never come to Dublin again. I’ll give nobody honours.” He was never seen in such a rage before. BRITISH MANNERS. London, October 27. Mr Edward Legge says that King Edward once said “You might expect politeness from an Englishman, but not manners.” King George, years later, requested the Bishop of Worcester to emphasise the value of manners, when ‘ addressing schoolboys. The Bishop inquired why? King George replied “because mixing among all sorts and conditions of men has been a positive distress to mo. See how often when abroad Englishmen lose in the race with Frenchmen, Italians, and Germans because of their want of manners.”