Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1858-04-10

Dearu-an amusement WIlcn was considered an
excellent joke by the whole party. The above
royal marriage was celebrated between s and q
in the morning, and this has been considered as
and in the same month, August, Mary Stuart
in widows weeds, stood at the same altar, with
'that long lad" Lord Darnley, and their nup.
tials were all over between and 6 O'clock
long before breakfas, time.
The most romantic Of all the marriages of our
princesses was perhaps that of Mary. the next
daughter Of Henry VII. She was the lady OF
many suitOrs, loving herself but one, and lie a
subjectpf her brother, Henry VIII. A king
won her and welded her, Louis XII. of France
and yet she married the subject, her true lover,
after ALL She was sent across the sea TO her
royal husband; and with an escort of 1000
archcrs of IIcnry's body guard, bevv of very
pale knights and paler ladies, was cast ashore.
about three leagues to the east of Boulogne,
where there Still stands hut which is said to
have been the temporary palace of "Aladamc
Mary pearl of England" There was wild
sort of Court held on the sands. and some gay
doings, at which one Mistress Anne Boleyn was
amongst the most lively performers Then
there was a gaycr cortege to Abbeyvllc. where
Louis MI. cspouscd Madam Mary, to whom the
city made substantial presents of oxen, sheen.
queen was a widow, and then speedily ensued
that private marriage with Charles Brandon.
Duke of Suholk-which, being an accomplished
fact, the king was fain to sanction. The prn-
cess kept house in the Borough; and the dust
of wife, who was happier with a duke than
with king lies within the splendid ruins at
Bury st. Edmunds.
We pass by the marriage Of Queen Mary Tu-
dor with Phillip II. at Winchester, TO notice that
of "a princess" of England-namcly, Elizabeth.
daughter of James l. to Frederick, Count PAM
tine. aftcrward the "Winter King" of Bohemia.
The most singular incident connected with the
performance Of this marriage was that it was
regularly asked by the publication Of banns in
the Chapel Royal. The nuptials were cecbra-
ted in February, 1913 So pure and brilliant
looked the bride and her twelve maids that their
passage. it was said Cooked like Milky
Way" The expense Of this georgeously celc-
brated marriage cost the country nearly flOO,-
OOOi nearly fS,000 was expended in fireworks
alone on the THAMES. The lords and ladies
about Court got up a masquc. at their own
charge, and, says Winwood II hear there is an
order given for Il 800 to provide one upon the
Kings cost" a gigantic outlay for a misera-
bic result
In May, 1911, occurred the last of what NAV
be called the chiid-marriages, when Mary.
daughter of Charles l.. then in her tenth wear.
was married in the Chapel ROYAL, Whitehall, to
William. aiterward second Prince of Orange.
There was hcvy of very little bridesmaids. all
in cloth of silver, and Bishop Wren blessed the
happy union, The bridegroom was only eley
en-. The wedding testvity had much the as
pect of a good rompiug "childrens party; !" and
when King. Queen and Court escorted the chill
drcn TO their respective rooms, there were few
more weary than the little hero and heroine of
the day.
After a lapse of sx-and thirty wears. another
Mary, daughter of the Duke of York flames
u.), was married TO another and greater VIII
liam of Orange, the son of the couple last men
toned. This was i'll November, 1917. The la
dy is said To have been unwilling and Charles
ii. had no greater delight than in making the
grave Dutch lover drunk, and inducing him to
break the windows of the maids ofhonor, The
incident worth remarking on this occasion is
that the ceremony Of marriage took place in the
bed-chamber Of the princess at 8 o'clock at
nigh. Charles ii. acted as father" and ken,
the whole assembly in ccstacy or wonder at the
excess Of his joviality and his loud irreverence.
lie interrupted the Bishop, and talked iokingly
TO the bride answered more than was set down
for him as father and finally, after supper
was over, speeches made, posset drunk and cake
broken, the merry and tipsy monarch drew the
curtains with his own royal hand, and halloo
such as Squire Western might have given of
"St. George for England" :"
The same joyous father gave away the
Princess Anne 10 George of Denmark in July,
1858. The ceremony took place in the Chapel
Royal at 81. JameS'S, ard was splendid and to-
erably decorous. The people were not forgot
ten on this occasion. Wine. conduit-shows and
diversions .I "a fha,,, I
the church bells changed from every steeple
throughout the entire night.
The first marriage in England of Princes of
the Georgian era occurred just half century
after the marriage last recorded. In March,
I33, the Prince of Orange, whom Queen Car
oline called an ANIMAL and George the Sec
ond "baboon," was espoused to the Princess
Anne "in the French Chapel" ST. james S.
The groom was hideously ugly, and the bride
was marked by the smallpox. The ceremony
took place in the evening. At midnight there
was public supper, and at two in the morning
the unromantic couple sat up in bed in rich un-
dresses, while the Court and nobility. as chron-
icler remarks, fresh from an exhilarating sup
per and strong wines. defiled before them, max
ing pleasant remarks the while, as fair gentle
men used to make who were born in our Au-
GUSTAV age As similar observances marked
the otner royal marriages OF such children of
George the Second as entered into the happy
state, simple record of the fact to mark the
tone of the times will suffice.
This custom, which had grown out of the SOL
emn pageant which used to take bride and bride
groom to their thresholds and there leave them
with honest blessings and good wishes, was
omitted at the wedding of George the Third
with Queen Charlotte. But even on that occa-
sion the bride, who had been travelling all day,
had to sup in public and could hardly hold up
that remarkably plain face of hers, when two in
the morning strucH, and she was permitted to
retire.
Soon afterward-when the Duke of Bruns-
wick married the Princess Augusta very beg
carly wedding was followed by right royal sup
per at Leicester Houses and never since that
time have kings, queens, and such-like august
personages assembled TO hold high festival in
"Lincon Fields" On this occasion however.
dramatic festivities marked the event and with
our usual happy felicity the bridegroom was en-
tertained at Covent Garden with comedy bear
ing the remarkably appropriate title, "He's no.
body's enemy but his ownr' At the opera, the
crowd was so great that ladies got out of their
sedans in Piccadily, and powdered beaux going
before them and initiating the knights of old, as
far as in them lay, drew their bodken swords,
and threatened to cut way for the ladies to