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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1912-09-06, Page 5SHOWING NOTABLES ROUND THE VISITS OF SOME FOREIGN POTENTATES. Amusing ; Incidents Recorded While ,They Were. "Doing" Eng„ land. When a foreign potentate or Royalty of minor rank visits Eng- land for the first time a clerk from the Foreign Office is usually de- tailed by the Government to "show him round," or, ' in official lan- guage, t0 act t as the potentate' s "visiting attache," says a writer in London Answers. I have acted on several occasions officially as guide, counsellor, and friend to a number of minor foreign Royal personages, and when doing so have .had. some rather amusing experiences. I acted as attache to Prince Lidj Eyassau, of the Abyssinian Royal Family, when he came to London some years ago. He was rather an awkward sort of person to have to take charge of. He had a habit when he went into a shop of picking up things to look at, and, if they did not take his fancy, of dropping them to the ground in the most lordly and disdainful manner. On one occasion we went into a dealer's shop in Bond Street, where he took up an odd Dresden vase, and, after looking at it critically for a few minutes, threw it to the ground. I made a frantic but una- vailing effort to catch it. The Prince had subsequently to pay £300 to the dealer for the vase. STRANGE APPRECIATION. Another gentleman I had the hon- or of escorting about London for a Couple of weeks was the Sultan of Oran. I went with him to a dinner - party one night given at one of the embassies. All went well until the end of the dinner, when the ambas- sador and his wife rose from the table. The chief gue.st then sud- denly hit the table a resounding blow with his fist, and shouted out something in his native tongue, whilst his eyes appeared to blaze with anger as he glared first at his host and hostess and then at their guests. No one seemed to -know quite what to do. Then,,,, in a low undertone, the Wean explained to me in French endeavoring to;‘,:think his hospitelity; ud the, w r ,*: ded• happily. �ocasionally minor foreign poten- tates who come to England neglect to make proper arrangements about having money advised to them from their native country to London, and, as a result, find themselves in considerable financial embarrass- ment. .Some years ago a prince of the reigning family of a minor Euro- pean State arrived in. London for a short visit without a penny. "UNCLE" TO THE RESCUE. The attache, however, who was commissioned to look after him brought a. pawnbroker to the hotel where the prince was staying, who advanced £1,000 on .the prince's jewels, which lasted the prince un- til he obtained money from his own country, fortunately only afew days later. One of the most amusing inci- dents I remember in connection with my experiences as a visiting attache was when I took the then Crown Prince of Siam to a great 'society bazaar. The prince evident- ly did not understand, though I tried to explain to him, that the �ladies selling at the bazaar were persons of high rank. A few minutes after be entered the bazaar several great ladies ep- proached him, :asking him to buy some of their wares. One of these was a duehes•s. "Tell these women to kneel when they address me," he said to me in broken French. The ladies, who understood • him, promptly did so, •and succeeded in taking about £50 off the prince be - ...fore they rose. 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