p. 313 | COMMONERS NOT WANTED

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 20, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 20.

COMMONERS NOT WANTED.

If Jesus should make his second advent in London and decide to attend church, he would not be allowed to occupy a pew in the Chapel Royal at St. James' Palace. A recent dispatch from England says:—

“The queen has given orders that the pews in the Chapel Royal of St. James' Palace are to be most carefully reserved for the persons who are entitled to the use of them, and that outsiders are on no account whatever to be admitted to them. Her majesty has been much exasperated by the recent fuss about the gallery, which was reserved exclusively for peeresses and their unmarried daughters. It seems that the second wife of a certain well-known nobleman attended divine service accompanied by her daughter by a former marriage with a commoner. The other peeresses were exceedingly irate, and quite a hailstorm of protests against the irregularity disturbed the serenity of the offices of the lord chamberlain and lord steward. One lady of high nobility intimated the intention of reporting the matter to the Duchess of Buccleuch in order that it might be mentioned to the queen, who would at once have interfered, as the offending peeress is very far from being in favor at court. The result was, however, that the husband received an official intimation from the lord chamberlain that, although his wife was entitled to sit in the peeresses' pew in the Chapel Royal, yet that his stepdaughter had no claim to be there, and that if she came again she would be refused admittance.”