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Show WILSON GUEST OF HONOR AT REGAL BANQUET; I ' I LONDON, Dec. 27 No mere regal setting had been arranged in Buck-1 ingham Palace than that which greet - I ed President Wilson and Mrs. Wilson' I when thoy were escorted Into the ban-jquet ban-jquet hall tonight for the precedent-breaking precedent-breaking syue dinner. Every royal formality which had attended-epochal occasion at the palace for two or three hundred years was; carried out before and during tho ban-! ouet. President Wilson with Queen i Mary led the procession into- the dining din-ing hall, preceded by officials of tho I palace splendidly costumed, bearing wands and walking backwards and ( making obeisance to the guests. Immediately behind the president I and the queen came King George antlj Mrs. Wilson. They were followed by,; members, of the royal family. j At the head of the table twelve persons per-sons were seated, with King George' jin the middle. President Wilson sat jal the king's-right a"nd Sirs. Wilson on I (his left. To the right of President! J Wilson was Queen Mary and .the" French ambassador. Princess Chris-1 tlan, the Spanish ambassador and' Princess Patricia, daughter of the I Duke of Connaught. At Mrs. Wilson's 1 jleft sat Princess Mary, the Italian ambassador. Princess Beatrice and the ; Japanese ambassador in the order named. The American ambassador, John W. Davis, had the first place at a rectangular table on President Wilson's Wil-son's right. Prior to the dinner President and (Mrs. Wilson were escorted from their1 apartments to the great white draw-I ling room, where the royal family had-j gathered with their other guests ) I These guests were presented to Prcs-j ident and Mrs. Wilson and tho dinner; party immediately proceeded to the' dining hall. I .The scene was one of splendor. In the dining salon was a great' collection collec-tion of solid gold plate and huge gold , I ornaments valued at fifteen million j dollars. These had been brought from the vaults for the occasion. One of-Ihreo of-Ihreo buffets contained pieces of plate' too large or otherwise too cumbersome j for use. These included one piece of great size taken from the wreck of the, Spanish armada. I In color the gold laden table blend-' led with the decorations in the hall, I i which are white and gold with crim-l Ison carpet and upholstering to match. J jTho crimson efrect was further carried i out by the exclusive use of poinset-1 tas as floral decorations. In the bal-1 jcony at the end of the room was a l military orchestra, not hidden from; view by floral or other decorations. I The attendants were in full stale dress! which was heavy with gqldlacc. The banquet hall, which is 200 feet I long by 75 feel wide, was approached 1 by the guests through a state hallway j approximately a block long, richly fur- ( 1 nished and decorated with paintings land porcelain. The banquet 1ia.Il ! occasionally is used for banquets and I other purposes, and has a throne at lone end. The main lablp was arranged so that' the backs-of President Wilson and j living George were toward the throne. j The permanent decorations seemed; strikingly simple when compared wilhj the regal table. The only art on the ! walls was one gobelin tapestry. On each side six cut glass chandeliers hung from the extremely high celling, but for the banquet tonight 128 candles can-dles in gold candelabra, each mounted ! I by a pink silk shade were used. Other Oth-er light was obtained from fancy wall fixtures. The general body of Ihe guests pre-' pre-' ceded the royal family and the presi-Identlal presi-Identlal and ambassadorial guests into the banquet hall. They rose and remained re-mained standing while the main guests and the host3 entered in procession. Heading the procession was the lord chamberlain and the Lord steward and other officials In state regalia. Yeomen Yeo-men of the guard in reel Elizabethan! costumes and with halberds were in I attendance. ' The guests at the state banquet giv- J en tonight at Buckingham palace were: King George and Qupon Mary. President Pres-ident and Mrs, Wilson; Princess Mary, ' Prince Henry. Prinre George, the Duke of Connaught. Princess Christian, Princess Beatrice, Princess Patricia -of Connaught. I Admiral Grayson, Major General Biddle, Brigadier General Harts, Lord Herschcll. Sir Charles Cust; Paul! Cnnibon, tho French ambassador: the Italian ambassador and the Marchioness Marchion-ess Iraperiali. Alfonse Merry del Va, the Spanish ambassador; the Japanese ambassador land Viscountess Chlnda; the Ameri can ambassador and Mrs. Davis. Vice I Admiral Sims; J. Butler Wright, coun- sellor of the American embassy, and Edward Bell. F. V. Gunthcr, R. E. Penndyer nnd E. C. Shoecraft. secretaries secre-taries of the American embassy. David R. Francis, American ambassador ambas-sador to Russia. R. B. Stevens of the Amerfcan shipping board; Colonel En-dlcoit En-dlcoit of tho American Red Cross; Gorden Auchlnloss; MissBenhnm, secretary sec-retary to Mrs. Wilson: Colonel S. L. II. Slocum. military attache of the .American embassy. The archbishop of Canterbury, the ! archbishop of Lord, Lord Chancellor I Finlay, Premier Lloyd George, Earl I Curzon, the Marquis of Cre'wcT the earl of Reading, British ambassador !to the United States. The Earl of Crawford, the Maharaja of Bikancr, Viscount Milncr. Lord Haldane, Viscount Vis-count Brycc, Field Marshal .Viscount French, Viscount Northcliffe. Viscount Jellicoe, Viscount Cave. Lord Robert Cecil, the bishop of London. Lord Ray-lelsh, Ray-lelsh, Lord Burnham, Lord Harding, Lord Weir, Speaker Lowther, A J. Balfour. Walter Hume Long .and former for-mer premier Asquith. oo |