THE QUEEN OBJECTS.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1966, 23 April 1875, Page 2

THE QUEEN OBJECTS.

That Queen Victoria holds very rigid views ou questions of domestic morals has long been known, says a transatlantic Editor. Just how severe she can bo is indicated by the following bit of gossip which the London correspondent of the Tribune declares to be authentic. A lady whom I will call Mrs JB. announced to her friends that she was going to be presented at the last drawing-room, observing that for her daughter's sake she would overcome her own dislike or indifference to the ceremony. But Mrs B. declared at the same time, that she would be presented by nobody but the Duchess of— let me say C.; a Duchess known to be personally intimate with the Queen, as well "as to have held a high post in the royal household. -Mrs B's. position and that of her husband were such that her friends regarded her presentation as a matter pf course, and only wondered there should be so much talk of it in) advance. But the day .came andj passed, B's. name Mas not in. the next morning's list of thoVe pre-J sented. What had happened?. To ask Mrs B. was a delicate matter, but there was no reason why the duchrss »honld not be questioned, and to the duchess flew Mrs B.s friends! .'Why did you no present Mrs B. P' queried they* *To whom responded the duchess: ' Well, it's true I promised .to present Mrs 8., and such a wigging as I have had for it from the Queen, I am not likely Jo forget. The Qacen sent, for me the day before, held up the card on which was Mrs' B's name and mine as her sponsor, and said, "Duchess, how can' yon; uai dertake to bring Mrs B. to the drawing room ? Do you forget that" Mrs* B. has once been at my court as Mrs A., and that Mr A. is still living ?' And when I began some sort of answer, her Majesty stopped me with, 'Tier* is absolutely nothing to be said. The fiat is final.' I got away as best I could; and now yon know why :I aid not prtsebt Mrt sß.' There are doubtless Americans who, will recognise the persons; whom I hwri disguised with fictitious initials, .for they are all eminent. I shall -give no other clue to-them except to. say that ti*e ; divorce in question was legally and: rtgilftrly obtained by Mrs B. from her former husband. ■_'' " *•'•'■ ••' : •.•'.