X. SOME SCOTTISH HOUSES 250 XI. KING EDWARD'S FOREIGN TOUR 264 XII. MARIENBAD AND OTHER HEALTH RESORTS 289 XIII. SOME RECOLLECTIONS OF AN EQUERRY 305 XIV. MORE RECOLLECTIONS OF AN EQUERRY 319 XV. A VISIT TO THE NITRATE FIELDS 333 XVI. 1910 354 AFTERWORD 379 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS _To face page_ MY GRANDMOTHER _Frontispiece_ THE KEEP OF TATTERSALL CASTLE 4 (_From Photograph by F. Frith & Co., Ltd._) THE HON. MRS. DAWSON DAMER 6 (_From the Miniature by Isabey._) H.M.S. "ARIADNE" AT NAPLES, 1871 30 SEYMOUR FORTESCUE, 1893 75 (_From Photograph by A. Debenham, Cowes._) GROUP ON BOARD H.M.S. "SURPRISE" 152 GROUP ON BOARD H.M.S. "SURPRISE" AT VENICE, 1887 167 ON BOARD THE ROYAL YACHT "VICTORIA AND ALBERT" 196 (_From Photograph by A. Debenham, Cowes._) "BRITANNIA" RACING AT COWES 200 (_From Photograph by W. U. Kirk & Son, Cowes._) SEYMOUR FORTESCUE AS MORONI'S LAWYER, DEVONSHIRE HOUSE FANCY BALL, 1897 226 (_From Photograph by Frederick Hollyer._) A SHOOTING PARTY AT MARIENBAD 294 KING EDWARD, WITH EQUERRIES IN ATTENDANCE, ON THE PROMENADE AT MARIENBAD 305 ON BOARD H.M. YACHT "VICTORIA AND ALBERT," 1909 354 (_From Photograph by A. Debenham, Cowes._) CHANCEL OF SANDRINGHAM CHURCH, DECORATED IN MEMORY OF H.M. KING EDWARD VII 378 ON BOARD THE FLAGSHIP OF THE HOME FLEET, 1910 380 LOOKING BACK CHAPTER I EARLY DAYS