THE KING’S DISPLEASURE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2769, 26 March 1910, Page 3 (Supplement)

THE KING’S DISPLEASURE.

— V In Court circles it is a serious matter to incur Royal displeasure.. The man or woman who does so intentionally ceases to he recognised by His Majesty —which means social extinction. \Tho offender’s name is struck out of the visiting list of every jierson who is anybody in society, and should the offender be a man, lie is politely informed that his resignation from his club or clubs would not be out of place. No man or woman of social repute will in future know him, and, if he be in the Army or Navy, he has no option but to resign, for be will find himself cut dead by every one of his brother officers. In fact, says “M.A.P.,” a few years ago a retired naval officer, who was a notorious bully, flatly contradicted a statement made by King Edward, then Prince of Wales. The King passed over the officer's rudeness at the time, but some days later an equerry presented liimself at the officer’s residence, and politely informed him that His Royal Highness was not desirous of his acquaintauce in the future. From that moment the officer was cut by everybody in Society, and. although lie tried to brazen the matter out, he eventually left England altogether, and took up his residence abroad. There he sank lower and lower in the social scale, until not long ago the news of his death in a New York street brawl came as a fitting ending to his notorious career.