KING EDWARD’S LETTERS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3342, 7 October 1911, Page 7

KING EDWARD’S LETTERS.

PEERESS MAKES A BONFIRE HOW' COUNTESS OF WARWICK CHEATED GOSSIPS. The Countess of Warwick is living down her old-time sobriquet, 1 ‘The Babbling Brook.” She has deliberately burned a large collection of letters from King Edward, which would have been priceless to a publisher. The Countess for many years received from the late King an average of three letters weekly from and up to his accession. Many of these ■ documents dealt with State affairs and high politics. as well as intimate affairs of the Royal Family. The Countess has of late been frequently approached by publishers anxious that she write her memoirs, but she has firmly refused, saying she does not wish to be another Lady Cardigan. So the world loses, a most fascinating book of memoirs. . Since George V. came to the throne Lady Warwick has avoided publicity, her former socialist friends liave ceased to regard her efforts in the cause as sincere, and her old intimates in society with few exceptions do not even recognise her existence. Nevertheless the Royal Family and society should ,be grateful to the Countess for not abusing the great confidence placed in her by the late King.