COLONEL ROOSEVELT IN ENGLAND. 



envoy, and Sanad Khan Montaz Es Sultaneh, who represented 

 Persia, the trio comprising the total number of special envoys. 



At Windsor the Colonel joined the foot procession to the tomb, 

 later participating in the royal luncheon at Windsor, where more 

 than one hundred kings, queens, princes and princesses sat at ten 

 tables. The Colonel sat at the table of King George. 



Everyone in attendance admitted that the Colonel was the 

 dominating figure. The royalties who had not yet been presented 

 crowded about him eager for an introduction. The former Presi- 

 dent was literally besieged by royal questioners to learn his views of 

 European politics, but he was on his guard and countered by ques- 

 tions regarding the duties and burdens of kingship. 



MR ROOSEVELT INTERESTS A NOTABLE GATHERING. 



For more than an hour this crossfire of questions continued and 

 finally developed into the distinctive feature of the luncheon. So 

 interested did the notable assemblage, the greatest gathering of 

 royalty ever seen at such a function, become in the Colonel that for 

 a time the note of sorrow over the burial of King Edward was lost 

 sight of. Roosevelt's personality swept everything else aside. That 

 which impressed the Colonel most was the demeanor of the people, 

 the solemn dignity of the ceremony. 



Mrs. Roosevelt spent an hour or more on May 25 in the com- 

 pany of the Queen Mother Alexandra, at Buckingham Palace. The 

 call was made on the invitation of Her Majesty, who, when she re- 

 ceived the Colonel expressed the hope that she might see his wife. 



The conversation between the two had a wide range. The 

 Queen Mother was especially interested in her visitor's description 

 of the place occupied by women in the United States. Her Majesty 

 also inquired about Mrs. Roosevelt's journey to the Soudan to meet 

 her husband and listened with evident pleasure to the experiences 

 related. 



The London Daily Telegraph, in a long editorial eulogy of the 

 Colonel, describes him as the most powerful statesman in the English 



