Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1869-03-25
looked around a family.

or, 4 have nothing against her Majesty
nothing at all except he majesty. l do
not believe in Queens, and so could no; in
conscience take off my hat to her.
But, papa retorted the child, she
bowed to us, and you might have bowed
to The lady, if not to the Queen, That
would not have hurt your conscience.
This nice distinction, so admirably put
by the child, strock us all, aud all laughed
except the Doator. i beg your pardon,
my little Annie, he said, drawing his
daughte. TO his side. You wero wright,
and | see that was wrong. siThe next
time her Majesty drives past me will
take off my hat and bow as low as you
please TO the lady, he good wife, mother
and daughter. See if don't.
The little girl looked moliaed, grac-
iously bestowed a kiss on the offender
and retired to the nursery 10 take her
evening meal with the young children
In America, SD smart cnill would have
dined with her parents ard their guest,
in full dress. :
Republican and radical as Twas, felt
some regret at having missed seeing those
blooming young Princesses and the noble
mother of Victory; for the chance never
REQUIRED, though afterwa7d frequently
walked and drove in the Park. The Queen
and Prince Albert had seen a week or
two before, at the prerogation Of Parli-
ment, resplepdent in all the trappings ol
ROYALTY, surrounded with all its magnifi
cent accessOiies-such a sight as throws a
sort o. splendor of romance and pomp
over the imagination of the most prosaic
beholdcr
Of she Queens daughters, tho Princess
Alice was said to be the most amlablt. but
the Princess Royal was thought 10 have
the most English spirit and will. She was
not easy to control, even 10 her royal
mama, who adopted the hereto style oi
family government. She bore hard ON the
curb. and, the English like that when there
is firm hand on the rein. Ii was whis-
pered that she had hard breaking in, un>
acr the Prussian Court system of training.
and more than once baked and 'bolted.
1t was said that she almost brougl
about domestic rebellion, by command
ing the maids. TO adopt the neat English
cap, and thus 20 hide their chief beauty
and pride, the sunny'eoil of braids. She
had to give in here. Trouble there was
of some sort, yet more serious, which
mama was called in 10 settle. Princely
Prussia, yet it is hardly likely that her
illlstrious spouse will, eyer keep her in
bodily fear Of The co1uhial cane, or o
being helped down stairs, in the old roya
Prussian style, for the least act ofinncva'
ZION or characterization.
In her girlhood, the Englishi people
thought Victoria the younger, Ike the
Princess Charlotte, who is still their saint,
ed royal lille, occupying q niche apar
from all her race, But this princess ha,
not only had, better training, but has
better blood in her veins than had the un
fortunate daughter of King George til,
Fourth and Caroline of Brunswick, til,
daughier of the greatest crowned SCAMP
and of the most wrstched and wrecklesl
royal woman Of the age,
Ii has always seemed 10 me probable
that the Princess Charlotte, dying jus
when she did, and as she did, was ideal
lied by the mourning millions who were
To have been her subjects. She had, doubt
lie Sc, noble traits of character, .he mobiles
of xhich was her devotion to and cham
pionsbip OF the poor, wrongcd, misguided
desperate mother; but born of such pa
rents, it seems that seme degree of coars
ness, though happily Iot falseness, mus
have inhered TO her; brought up Eea
such a court as that of her grandfathe
and father, some faint must have touched
her. OF al her uncles there was not on,
of decent moral character; of all her aunt
there seems to have been but one of pur
reputation, and she died young. Had tn
Princess lived. her beloved husband
Prince Leopold, would perhaps have beer
to her all that Prince Albert has been I,
; Victora; but it was said she was of an i'm
pulsive, passionate, wiIfu' nature. and sh
might have rebelled against his influence
Her temper, though generous, was vic
lent and gusty. was told that at on
time, when she was about twelve years o
age, she resolved on visit 10 her mothe
who was then at her town house, aud o
: the attempt Of Queen Charlotte to preven
her by force, she gave fight, tore the cal
+, from the royal and v-nerble grandmother
head, and trampelled it under foot. She
carried her point at last, escaped from tn
; palace, and joined her mother, and ,h'
] people liked her tor it; but little prin
e cess who indulged in such Inherent an
r ties was more likely to grow up into
: sovereign ofihe Queen Bess than of lh
Elizabeth u Hungary type. fsss
o Her death, which sadldened the world
> which clouded the brightest hopes OF th
\ people, and set all her uncles to marrying
may not, after all, have been untimely fU
her. She had enjoyed, at least, one gold
I cn year OF rare happiness as bellows
wife; she had felt the almost divine bless
edness OF a mothers hopes; she had com
> into the ful.ness of life, of love, ofjoy; sh
escaped all safety, sorrow, WEAKNESS, an
care; all the error and evil that wait upo
u power; all the peril, ingratitude, and ca
umny that, like doleful spirits, keep watc
about crown and throne. She died in
to blessed, double Immortality, safe an
beloved forever. -'
; The Duchess of Kent was regarded q
= woman of great good sense and tact, q
q well as fthe purcst life and the most ele
vated principles. The English pespI
Il |. a.