KILLED BY COURT RULE
Lecturing on “Austria” at King’s College, London, Mr Wickham Steed described the rigidity of court etiquette, and told the story of a young archduchess, who was to'“have married King Humbert of Italy. She had contracted the habit of smoking cigarettes, and while waiting to enter the ballroom at the late Emperor’s palace in Vienna was smoking in a re. cess, when the Emperor arrived. To hide her wickedness, she concealeu the cigarette in the folds of her muslin dress. The dress caught fire, and she was burnt to death because no lady or gentleman of the court was allowed the right to touch an archduchess, except the particular lady-in. waiting set apart by court ceremonial for the duty.
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Taihape Daily Times, 11 February 1918, Page 6
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