Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1862-05-15
olandestine Marriage of the Princo.of Vale

Clandestine Marriage of the Prince.of Wales
The London correspondent of the Detroit
Advertiser, alludingito. the.expected absence of
the Prince of Wales from the opening of the
Worlds Fair, says: -
"The cause,of his absence does not spring
from the princes desire of seeing foreign count
ries, it iis not from his approaching marriage
with Danish princess, nor does it arise from
his love passages at Windsor but the reasons
for his absence are now sufficiently manifest
The Prince of Wales is already married the
ingenious eldest son of her majesty is at the
present moment, and indeed for the last six
months has been, married to a fair subject.
The enthraller of the;prince's heart and recipi-
ent of his troth is beautiful young Hebernian
lady whom he met and fell in love with during
the period of military training at the Curragh
of Kildare in Ireland, where his royal highness
had appropriated to him, little removed from
the main line of tents which formed the en-
campment, neat hut with pretty little gard
en- attached to it. "'rhough he had everything
to make him comfortable there, during the idle
days and long evenings. he sometimes cantered
off to see some of the leading gentry of Kildare,
whose demesnes fringe the great plain on which
the prince was stationed. To one of those
houses in particular, and which was Inhabited
by family of ancient and almost historic stand
ing, his horses ahead was oftenest turned and
his visits became SO frequent that they ceased
to. be formal.
Nothing was suspected by the princes men,
tors, until one afternoon two Young ladies gal
loped over the green sward, pulling up in front
of the princes hut, and the alacrty with which
he came out ito meet them, and his particular
manner to the younger one, attracted the atten-
ton of an officer in high rank who happened at
the moment to be calling on the prince, and
who, being veteran in love as well as war,
fancied he saw something more than the mere
politeness of youngl prince 10 young lady.
The visits were repeated, and they were also
seen riding about the country.
"llowever, to cut long story short, in
certain little church not many miles from New
bridge (he next town to the Curragh) there
were one morning, united in matrimony two
young people, one of whom was the lady in
question, and the other the heir apparent 1.-The
throne of Great Britain, the only other parties
present being, besides the clergyman, brother
officer of the prince and the brides brother
The late lamented prince consort was made
aware of the fact just before quitting Ireland,
when they visited the lakes of Killarney in au-
tumn. BY the royal marriage act, l need
scarcely say, such union would be unlawful,
but so wrapped in this beautiful Irish bride is
the prince, that this journey of his to the east,
which was determined upon before the prince
consort's death, was suggested by the latter as a
means of weaving him from "his foolish at
tachment," upon the mind. But nothing will
do the young princes "heart, untraveled, fondly
turns" towards certain old mansion on the
confine of the Curragh, and which holds "what
is dearer to him than his future crown'-the
fair object of his thoughts. almost daily receiv-
ing a letter from under her youthful and royal
lovers hand"