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General Grant at the same time with the Emperor.
There was in fact no necessity to invite him at all if he could not receive in the house of the Heir to the Throne the same distinction that was offered him in every other house in England, and which the Prince of Wales must have known that the English Government had promised to accord.
One can understand that a prince might feel that he must maintain the principle which underlies his princehood; but the Prince of Wales put General Grant below everybody at his table of even the rank of an earl; and there is no rule recognized in any etiquette, royal or democratic, which forbids a hostess to speak to her guests.
In less than a month after this dinner General Grant was invited by the King of the Belgians, who took Mrs. Grant to table, while the General was requested to give his arm to the Queen.
The etiquette of the Prince of Wales was all his own. It was not even that of his own sovereign.
S. S. Scranton and Co., Hartford, 1887.
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