The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-01-15

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marriage of Queen Victoria, c. C. Haze.
well. in the Boston Traveller, gossips
thus pleasantly:
The English of the present day do not
fancy the re-narriage of royal ladies,
though that kind of thing is not unknown
to their annals. Adelicia of Louvailne,
second wife of Henry l, took second hus-
band in the person of William de Albini,
and the marriage was very happy one.
Isabella of Angouleme, wife of King John,
of unblessed memory, took second hus-
band In the Compile de La Marche, Lu-
signan, and bore him eight children. Isa-
bella of Valois, second wife of Richard | 1,
| had for her second husband her cousin,
the Duke of Orleans, poet of much re-
nown. Katharine of Valois, wife and
widow of Henry V, the hero of Shrews-
bury and Agincour, grew tired of single
life and married Owen Tudor, hand
some young Welchman, whose face was
| fortune, and who had fought as common
soldier in her royal husbands armies.
This was most important marriage,
and has colored history for well nigh four
centuries; for, if it had never been con-
| suumated, the house of Tudor never
would have had a place in the list Of dy-
nasties, and the influence Of that house on
the worlds history, though as a royal
line, il existed less than one hundred and
thirteen years, is of unparalleled charac-
ter. Katharine, like sensible woman i,
married for comfort, being in love with
brave man but the consequences of her
venture, as old Mr.. Weller would say,
were such as never could have visited the
dreams of even Ienoba or a Semiramls,
Katharine Parr, the last of Henry FIiI's
six wives, married Lord Seymour, of Sud
lev, and she had more than once married
before she had become Queen Consert.
1t is believed that Henristta Maria. widow
of Charles !, was strictly married to Har-
ry Jermyn. No Euglish Queen dowager
has been suspected of marrying a second
time siuce Henrietta Maria's death.
OF English Queens-regnant previous
to Victoria, there were married, namely.
Mary /, Mary II and Annie, but none of
them had q second husband. OF English
Kings. Henry /. Edward |, Richard IL,
Henry " and james Ii were twice mar
ried. Henry Tvs first marriage and
widowhood occurred before he had any
prospect of becoming King, and his second
wife, Joanna of Navarro. vas Duchess
Dowager of Brittany, and was the first
widow who ever wore the crown mairino
nial of England. Elizabeth Wocdville,
wife Of Edward ", being the second, and
+! Katharine Of Arragon and Katharine Parr
| the third and fourth. James ll's mar
riaces were both made while he was sub
| ject, but heir presumplive to the crown.
iIHenrv VIII married and murdered and
divorced widows until he could say that
be had proved fatal To five women, and
hoped to dispose Of sixth; but death
thought that 50 good purveyor to his
nav deserved himself to TO be taken, and
so took him before he could take off the
head OF his third Kate. the savage and
unrelentiBg pe.ruchio that he was. OF
the four Queens -regnant, two, Annie and
| Victoria. became widows. Annie was
widowed in her forty-ifth year. and she
was asked hy Parliament to marry again,
to which she made dignificd reply.
In these days no Parliament would
think Of asking Queen Victoria to marry.
Modern ideas are more delicate than were
those OF old times The English Of Anne's
day would have been as much pleased had
their sovereign married second time, as
the English OF to-day would be displeased
were Victoria TO bestow her fair hand
upon some fortunate man, but Prince AL
bert was very different sort OF man from
Prince George of Denmark, and his men,.
CRY is revered. Then people as well az
sovereigus have become more exclusive
and Queen is considered to be a more
sacred parsonage in England now than sh'
was even in the divine right days.
There would no. be the slightest i'm
propriety in the Queens marrying sec
ond time, but il she were so to marry, NJ
/ matter how worthy should be her choic
, and she is not woman to make ba
choice-the proceeding would go far t
destroy her well-won popularity. In thi
country we should take a very diiferen
: view of the matter, and heartily shoul
VIC congratulate female sovereign, ha
, we one, should she enter second tim
into the holy state of matrimony.