GREAT BRITAIN: King's Son's Father-in-Law
The Clans gathered at Glamis last week. Campbells, Rosses, Ferguses, MacDonalds, MacNeills and the rest all sent delegations to attend the 50th wedding anniversary of His Lordship Claude George Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kingshorne. For over 250 of its 800 years, Glamis Castle has been the property of the Bowes-Lyon family. Here by tradition Macbeth did murder Duncan (and sleep). Here Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon married King George's son, the Duke of York (TIME, May 5, 1923). Here their second child was born, the Princess Margaret Rose of York (TIME, Sept. 1, 1930). The Duke & Duchess were much in evidence at the Golden Wedding last week. Her Grace won the hearts of the assembled clansmen by treading a Highland reel with an ancient gaffer in kilts and sporran, the oldest tenant of the Strathmore estates. The Earl of Strathmore bit his drooping mustache and regarded the celebration somewhat sourly. To reporters the King's Son's Father-in-Law made almost as gloomy an announcement as a man could on his wedding anniversary: "Taxation, local and imperial, absorbs 80 of every hundred pounds I receive and now comes the new land tax. I fear I may no longer be able to remain in the residence."*
*Hugh Cecil Lowther, Lord Lonsdale, 74, of the elaborate sideburns, impeccable tailcoats, long black cigar and big buttonhole flowers, announced last week that his financial condition "has become one of considerable difficulty." What with taxes, farm problems and an accident in one of his Cumberland mines which reduced that part of his income from $600,000 to $10,000 yearly, his Lordship said he must lease the shooting at Lowther Castle. Worse, he must sell nearly all his racehorses, for a generation among Britain's finest. Also last week, the Marchioness Curzon of Kedleston (grave Elvina Hinds of Alabama) went into bankruptcy in London.
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