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Show I KING'S . SECRETARY SOON TO RETIRE j i i 1 "There," said a Journalist, indicating indicat-ing Lord Knollys, calm, suave and imperturbable, im-perturbable, at the time wtien the coronation of the late King Edward had been postponed owing to his illness ill-ness and rumors of rbable abdication abdica-tion and other things were flying about, "stands the secret history. What a ealth of good paragraphs LXS there would be if we ould only get fr him to talk!" It was a tribute to the man behind the throne who, after forty-five years of royal service as private secretary and friend to three monarchs Queen Victoria, King Edward and King George is about to retire, says London Lon-don Tit-Bits. What an absorbing story of the inner side of court life Lord Knolfys could unfold! King Ed: ward trusted him implicitly, regarding regard-ing him as an intimate friend and companion, as well as secretary and adviser, invariably relying on hi iudgment and having no secrets from "Francie," as he was wont to call his lordship. It is extremely unlikely, ho.vever, that the world will ever be taken into Lord Knollys' confidence regarding his long association with the royal family, fam-ily, for he is a man who talks little and writes less. "No man ever knew bo much and said so little," was a remark of the late archbishop of Canterbury about him. He has been described as the most silent, yet the most tactful, man in Europe. I 1 : 1 |
