Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1905 — HOOTING BRITISH ROYALTY. [ARTICLE]

HOOTING BRITISH ROYALTY.

Case Whieh Has Not Had a Parallel in Over 100 Years. The recent hooting of a member of the British royal family by a crowd of unemployed in London prompts a writer lo remark that it is necessary to go back more than 100 years to find a precedent for it. The last instance of a member of the royal family being hooted by a London mob in the streets was when old Queen Charlotte was not only hissed and insulted, but even pelted with offal while on her way from St. James’ Palace to what was then known as Buckingham House (now Buckingham Palace). The mob even went so far as to stop her sedan chair, and there is no knowing what might have happened had not the homeliest of all of England’s long line of queens let down the glass of the chair and apostrophised the mob with the following words; “I am 70 years of age; I have been 50 years Qifeen of England, and I never was insulted before.” Her anger, her absolute fearlessness, and at the same time her wonderful dignity, turned the temper of all those of the mob within earshot. The hisses were converted into cheers, and it was amidst the plaudits of the crowd that the sedan chair continued its way unobstructed to Buckingham House.