River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1872-10-18
Royal Marriages.
From the Philadelphia Press.

The rumor noticed in some of the
London papers, and received here
through the cable, that Beatrice,
youngest daughter of Queen Victoria,
was to be married to the Marquis Of
Stafford, eldest son of the Duke of
Sutherland, may have originated in the
fact that her Majesty lately paid visit
to Dunrobin Castle, one of the Dukes
many seats. Twenty years ago she
had promised to visit Dunrobin,
but some circumstances prevent
ed her carrying out her intention.
Then she would have been received by
her lifelong friend, wife of the second
Duke of Sutherland. Now she was
welcomed by the third Duke and
Duchess, whose eldest son lately
reached his majority. 1t is six hun
dred and forty years since Dunrobin,
on the extreme north of scotland, was
visited by royalty. Among the guests
specially invited to meet the Queen
was Mr.. Stanley, who may be SAID to
have recovered DR.. Livingstone, the
d1scoverer.
Queen Victoria has left on record, in
the published journal of her life in the
Scotch Highlands, her opinion that
daughters ought to marry young, and
certainly has~calried out this idea.
The Princess Royal was married soon
after she was seventeen, Princess Alice
at eighteen, Princess Helena at twen-
ty, and Princess Louise at twenty.
three. Her youngest daughter, the
Princess Beatrice, will not complete
her sixteenth year until next April, and
most people may think, may advantage
ously "bide wee blttie," as they say
in Scotland.
In all points, the marriage of Prin-
cess Beatrice with the future Duke of
Sutherland would be eligible, even
more so, perhaps, than that of her sis
ter to the Marquis of Lorne. The
Dukedom of Argyll, created in the year
1901, is much more ancient than that
of Sutherland, created in 1888, and the
Duke of Argyll's oldest barony was
granted in 1445, with an earldom and
the title of Lord of the Isles in 147O.
But the second Duke of Sutherland,
besides being Baronet of the year
1920, and baron in 1702, has inherited
from his mother, who was peeress IN
her own right, the Earldom of Suther
land and the Barony of Strathnavar,
said to have been created about the
year 1857. With these maternal titles
came vast estates, covering the greater
part of the county of Sutherland,
which, added to the already large
landed property in the counties Of
Stafford, Salop and York, have made
the Duke Of Switzerland one of the
richest of British robes, in contradls-
tinction to his Grace of Argyll, who is
one of the poorest. If his eldest son
were to marry Queen Victoria's daugh-
ter, it is very probable that, if he could
courteously do so, he would decline &C.
cepting the usual 100000 dowry and
of $50, 900 year, the grant of which to
the Princess Louise last year caused
very much dissatisfaction throughout
the British Islands, the general opinion
being that her mother, reputed to have
accumulated some ten million dollars,
could afford to portion her own daugh
tiers, without quartering them for life
upon the public treasury.
1t may be added that the Duke of
Sutherland, in direct succession to
Mary, Queen Dowager Of France, sister
of the co-heir of Henry VIII, is nearer
the original royal line of England than
Queen Victoria or any Of the imported
German family OF Guelph. He also
claims kin with John Cover, one of
the fathers of English poetry, who
lourished in the fourteenth century.
In oil respects, if the affections of the
young folks that way tended, the mar
riage of an English Princess with the
heir OF one of the wealthiest Dukes
would not have been so unequal as if
the cadet of a poor German Grand
Duke had been the sutton.