| Show lo fl q PI 4 ru tJ v t r t 0 w r v TWO CLAIMANTS FOR TOR AN ABSURD OFFICE The two gentlemen I whose whoso portrait aro are presented In the Illustration here herewith herewith herewith with are causing a great reat deal of ot trouble In England l on account of their rival claims for o at nl the forthcoming coronation of at their sovereign King Icing Edward VII In tact fact nil all England h It distressed over oer the momentous question of ot whether hut tho Earl Kurl of Ancaster or the tho Marquis of shall aha I Ilie be lie lord great on that auspicious nua lelous occasion Both gentlemen come of very ancient and honorable families tho the Earl of ot who Is the tho elder fit fitt w Y t w i EAHL OK of wi 1 r art MARQUIS OF 01 now years arll old oM tracing his Ills descent from Baron Willoughby de tie In the fourteenth The other claimant George Henry Hugh h ugh pronounced l Chumly If It you please fourth margins does doea not go CO back hack quite so 10 far tar and ami his hla hI claim to b be joint lord great chamberlain eh of England descended to him through the tho marriage e of an nn ancestor The rhe dignity for tor whIch they the are contesting C It is I of oC great gnat gr at antiquity but lout when re to reduced reduced dared to Its real meaning consists t In being a sort port of ot valet Illet In chief ehler f of the king In waiting walling upon him hdm In let his hie bedchamber and In receiving r as perquisites the tho night before b tore hl hh coronation his hla wearing apparel his hll bedclothes and other choice mementos of ot the occasion |
