[107] The rule originated with Queen Elizabeth, who said she objected to her dogs wearing anybody else’s collars. Lord Clarendon himself, as Foreign Minister, had prohibited English servants of the Crown from accepting Foreign Orders. Lord Clarendon at the Coronation of the Czar Alexander, the Duke of Northumberland at the Coronation of Charles X., and Lord Beauvale at that of the Emperor Ferdinand, had to refuse Foreign Orders. The Duke of Devonshire was allowed to accept one from the Czar Nicholas at his Coronation, on the ground that, like many distinguished Englishmen, he was a personal friend of his Imperial Majesty.
[108] Martin’s Life of the Prince Consort, Chap. CXVI.
[109] Martin’s Life of the Prince Consort, Chap. CXVI.
[110] Count Vitzthum’s Reminiscences, Vol. II., p. 182.
[111] A Selection from the Correspondence of Abraham Hayward, Q.C., Vol. II., p. 65.
[112] This, says Lord Clarendon in a letter to Mr. Hayward, was “charmingly characteristic;” but he adds, thinking of the effect on the mind of the Queen, “they” (the green gloves and blue studs) “will not have been unobserved, or set down to the credit side of his account.”—Mr. Hayward’s Correspondence, Vol. II., p. 72.
[113] Malmesbury Memoirs, Vol. II., p. 266.
[114] The Hayward Correspondence, Vol. II., p. 67.
[115] Malmesbury Memoirs, Vol. II., p. 267.
[116] The faithful Coburger, Löhlein, was the only member of the Royal household who seems to have given advice that would have saved the Prince’s life had it been acted on.