Show coronation beauties queen alexandra la surrounding belf ith alio prettiest women in england and her court promised Prom isea to be famous for feminine loveliness the honorable violet and the honorable doris vivian are handsome and barve her majesty As maids 0 honor lady constance butler tho countes i of alie honorable ethel garard are also wonderfully fair to sec queen alexandra ja very like queen I 1 annc in that she takes the sincerest pleasure in flowers and pretty women binco her husband lias assumed su royal state and influence she has slowly gently but firmly been retiring from all tho posts of honor about her person aind alie good but elderly ladica who to the pleasures of tho late grecious queen by the tuno the coronation hakea place the english court will bo famous for a galaxy of lovely girla and youthful matrona matrons mat rons all worthy tho brush of sir peter lely and the admiration of that notable judge of feminine beauty gay king charles H about the court preference of alie for good looks and good tempera and good hearts ia well known and nobody was in alie least when two of the most picturesque twin beauties in great britain were honcik as her first maids of honor these sweet fierla are the honorable and the honorable violet vivian though they are twin sisters they arc not counterparts counter parts one of the other and the honorable violet is esteemed rather the fairest of alio two if tho honorable boris is just a trifler beag perfect than her tall slender chestnut haired violet eyed mouthed euter she is keenly witty and quite as popular with the queen who la not ao severe a stickler for royal etiquette a was her predecessor and akes to hear of the jokes and of glicr shrewd piaia of honor the honorable sa one of the few persons who can read aloud to the satisfaction of her mistress who h hard 0 li earin but does not wish to bo reminded of her weakness after the vivian girls as these maids anre familiarly spoken of in london drawing the queen is fondest of the aadiel butler tho daughters of the marquis of ormonde and are counted the two handsomest women in irish society last year lady beatrice butler sister married for love the gallant general pole carca and her sister lady constance is invited to serve at court lady constance is an all around modern girl almost faultless inea ture and coloring a finished horsewoman an expert in and on the water a clever water colorist a maker atthe most delicate of fine Iris lilace a linguist and a charming companion she yachts with her father physics and advises and jests alie irilli peasantry on her fathers estate and is delightfully unspoiled by admiration and wealth she is to take her turn as a court lady during the coronation in ny station with one af tho prettiest women and the hunters in kingdom the honorable ethel gerard alie horse lias yet to be found eliat this courageous young lady would fear to ride and yet despite alie fact that she comes of a long line of hard riding maternal as well as paternal ancestors she ia in no sense a horsey girl off of her horse she is as frou frou as a parisian marquino Mar and slie has long been a prime favorite with the queen who admires her high spirits and glicr gentle voice and taig appealing grey eyes if women below the rank of duchess were permitted to bear the canopy over the queen in westminster abbey it is safe to predict that tho countess of cromartie would have been one ot four to this high office As it was the queen deliberately passed over alio claims of many superior elderly ladies who believed in their divine right to assist at coronations coro nations and picked out iier four canopy bearers because they were young pretty and eminently likeable their graces of sutherland mail borough montrose Mont rosc and portland are to support the queen greatly to the disgust 0 the of devonshire etc among the assisting badiei only will be seen the pretty piquant countess of cromartie who is ft countess and heiress quite in her own right she ia first coaxin of alio anko of sutherland and through her father inherits alie earldom of which ho inherited from his mother alio was also countess of in her own right lady cromartic with a her wealth and rood look chosa to marry major blunt and he and she live at castle lcou or at barbard home on cromartie Cro martio iirth in all ti lings even to her braw accent she ii scotch and speaks gaelio as fluently n her highland tenantry her sister is ano sturdy lady constance mackenzie who rides astride and like a south sen and travels as as sinbad tho sailor and cars not a snap of her fingers to be at court lady cromartie Cro martio ia gentle and domestic a truly warm friend of the queen who though old enough to be js not in the least by the fresh young sho pleases to gather about her |