Prince Arthur has been created Duke of Connaught and Strathearn
and Earl of Sussex. The Prince is the first member of the Royal House who has borne, as his superior dignity, a title derived from Ireland. Seven or more Royal Dukes have had secondary titles derived from Ireland, but secondary titles are invisible, and usually forgotten. Not one man in fifty thousand is aware that the Prince of Wales is Duke of Rothsay, any more than he is aware that the Queen is Countess of Clare. Englishmen not being imaginative, the fact that there is no English superior title among the Queen's children does not strike them either as a slight or a reproof. They'need no "con- -ciliation," and only wish that the Queen would occasionally reside in her capital, because they think it might tend to facilitate public business, and keep alive the elderly men whom they usually prefer for Premiers.
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