8 NOVEMBER 1913, Page 16

THE QUEEN AND A KING CONSORT.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-Surely you are wrong in attributing the advice given to Queen Victoria, when she wished to alter the title of her husband. The Queen did not want a King, but to change from "Prince Consort" to "King Consort," a very different position from that of King; and the advice to leave the question of " King " alone was tendered by Lord Palmerston, some years after Lord Melbourne's death, and long after the latter had retired from "public life." Is not this so ? It would be characteristic of "Pam." Melbourne, I don't re

member.—I am, Sir, &c., LIONEL B. WELLS. Stonehanger, Salcombe, South Devon.