"A Message from the Queen" [Lord O. A. Fitzgerald, MP] — by "Spy" (9 August 1873)

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"A Message from the Queen" — "Statesmen" No. 150

[Lord O. A. Fitzgerald, MP]

Spy

9 August 1873

Vanity Fair

See the Forty Years of 'Spy" commentary below. Among other political figures whose images appear in this chapter are Sir John Astley, "Jim" Lowther, M. P. (1877), Earl of Macclesfield (1881), and King Edward VII (1902).

Other Political Caricatures from Vanity Fair

Sir Benjamin Disraeli (Statesmen, No. 1) 30 January 1869
Sir Alfred Scott-Gatty, C.V.O. (Garter King-at-Arms) 1905
Lord Haldon 1882
Dizzy and Monty (The Earl Beaconsfield and Mr. Montagu Corry)
Admiral Sir Compton Domville 1906
Miss Christabel Pankhurst 1908

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Commentary from Forty Years of 'Spy'

Lord Otho being a prominent member of the R.Y.S., the burgee of that club usually flew from the flagstaff of Oakley Court. À propos of this Captain Bay Middleton, one of the guests, who could never resist a practical joke, persuaded the Prince Imperial to accompany him, in the small hours of the morning following the dance, to the summit of the tower, where he, having procured a towel hoisted it in place of the R.Y.S. Banzee. The Prince thought this was a great joke, but I never heard that the owner shared his opinion.

Shortly afterwards I was driving along a dusty road en route to Ascot Races when I passed Lord Otho's coach with the Prince Imperial upon it, but as I was covered with dust I certainly did not expect the latter to recognize me. However, when we met by appointment at Charing Cross to travel to Chiselhurst the first thing he said, with a smile, was, "Why did you cut me the other day on the road to Ascot?" Of course I had nothing to say. [Chapter XIII, "Yachtsmen — Foreign Rulers," pp. 275-276]

Bibliography

Ward, Leslie ['Spy']. Forty Years of 'Spy'. London: Chatto and Windus, 1915.

Ward, Leslie ['Spy']. "A Message from the Queen" [Lord O. A. Fitzgerald, MP] 9 August 1873. Vanity Fair.

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