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Buckingham Palace does not fly the Royal Standard, which means the King is not in " town." He is in Scotland as guest of the Mackintosh of Mackintosh, famous Scotch chieftain...
Lady Rose's father was successively Ambassador to Berlin and Vienna before he decided to retire to his country estates at Apthorpe. In Berlin account is made of King Frederick William IV; the Prussian royal children, with whom Lady Rose used to play; Prince Hohenlohe; Count Halzfeldt; Jenny Lind, singer; Meyerbeer, composer; Mendelssohn, famed pianist. In Vienna reference is made to the Emperor Franz Josef; the Empress Elizabeth; Prince Metternich. Journeys from Berlin to Calais, made by post, entailed crossing Belgian territory, and even here Lord and Lady Westmoreland were received with open arms by the Belgian Royal Family. Mention...
...high artistic standard good business policy as well as public service. The subjects are always good advertising, but they must also qualify as works of art, and many artists can testify that it is as hard to get a poster into the Underground as a canvas into the Royal Academy...
...Lady Diana Crosbie, daughter of Lord George Sackville, one of Sir Joshua's greatest full-length portraits, comparable with the famous Mrs. Siddons as the Tragic Muse (owned by Henry Huntington) and Nelly O'Brien (in the Wallace Collection, London). The painting was first exhibited at the Royal Academy of 1779, and depicts Lady Crosbie, then but 21 years old, charmingly posed on a lawn, elaborately gowned and coifed, with a landscape background...
...Paul Ehrlich (1854-1915), German, director of the Royal Institute for Experimental Therapeutics, Frankfort, discoverer of salvarsan and neosalvarsan, antisyphilitic compounds...