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...TIME, July 26, 1926, quoted the passage referred to : "Mr. Gladstone . . . [i. e. Queen Victoria's great prime minister] founded the great tradition, since observed by so many of his followers and successors with such pious fidelity: in public to speak the language of the highest and strictest principles and in private to pursue and possess every sort of woman...
Viscount Lascelles is 44, and still awaiting the death of his father, the Earl of Harewood, 80, sound as a cudgel. Though the King-Emperor often hunts with the Earl of Harewood, His Majesty almost never visits Goldsborough Hall, the estate of Lord Lascelles and Princess Mary. When the Queen-Empress goes there it is noticed, moreover, that Lord Lascelles is usually away. From this state of affairs springs the suspicion, now current in court circles, that Viscount Lascelles pointedly" resents the King-Emperor's neglect in not raising his rank since his marriage to Princess Mary...
...Queen Victoria's Prime Ministers: PRIME MINISTERS...
...Wright: "The late Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone was a gross sensualist. ... At a meeting of the Supreme War Council Lord Milner said of Mr. Gladstone that his policies were governed by 'his seraglio'. . . . Lord Morley once told me that Lord Granville told him he had known five of Queen Victoria's Prime Ministers who had committed adultery. I am sure that Mr. Gladstone must have been one of these.* . . . The actress Lillie Langtry, 'The Jersey Lily,' was well-known in the U. S. to be Mr. Gladstone's mistress. . . . Another was Olga Novikov whom the Tsarist Government sent...
...Elena,* Princess of Greece and Rumania, consort of the abdicated Prince Carol. The boy was their five-year-old son, Mihail, now Crown Prince of Rumania. Carol has not returned to reside with them since November, 1925 when he left Rumania to attend the funeral of Alexandra, late Dowager Queen-Empress of Britain...