The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-09-12
A ROYAL Romance.

henSlngtOn House, once the rOyal
residence, is near Holland House, where
Lady Sarah Lennox, a beautiful girl of
fifteen, was residing with her sister. The
Prince of Wales, soon to be George
Ill, fell IN love with her, and soon
after his accession and before his coro-
nation as good as asked her, in his awk
ward, stupid way, to be his queen. At
a bail given in the palace he took her
cousin, Lady Susan Strangways, one
side, and asked her when she meant to
leave town. She replied that she in
tended to stay for the coronation. He
said that this would not take place at
present, for there would be no corona
ton until there was queen and add
ed, 4 think your friend is the tittest
person Tor it. Tell her SO from me-
The next time Lady Sarah was at court,
the King led her TO a window, and in
quired, Has your friend told you of
my conversation with her ?" " Yes,
sir, was the answer ''And what do
you think OF it?" g Nothing, sir.
Nothing comes from nothing" an
swered George frettishly, and turned
on his heel.
The truth is, the girl was engaged in
a Irritation with the rather disreputable
Lord Newbottle She soon afterward
went into the country, fell from her
| horse, and fractured her leg, and had a
quarrel with Lord Newbottle. The
King was most assiduous in his in
quiries after her; and when she came
back to Holland House it was with at
least a strong liking for George. 1t
was observed also that every fine morn
ing he was wont to ride along a quiet
land which skirted the grounds Of
Holland House, and that Lady Sarah
was sure to be on the lawn pictur-
esquely dressed, and raking hay like
another Maud Muller. This courtship
! became the talk at court, and Fox was
evidently confident that his sister-in-
law was to be Queen of England. The
court and especially the personages of
the blood royal, took alarm at the pros
pect that one of rank inferior to their
own would be placed above them
Lord Butte, the Prime Misister, sent a
secret emissaIy to look out for queen
among the p1incely families of the
continent. The report was in favor of
the ugly but rather clever young
princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-
Strelitz. What means were used to
| induce George to consent to aban-
don the lovely Sarah and ask the hand
OF the ugly Charlotte, is not certain
! ly known. 1t is said that the straw
which broke the back of the esolutiOn,
was sight of neatly written letter
from the pen of little Charlotte about
| the horrors of war and the blessings of
peace. But III the early summer of 1761
! Lady Sarah was awakened from her
! haymaking and dreams of a crown by
reports almost certainly authentic, that
the King was to be married to the
Mecklenburg Princess and she took
| pen III hand, and wrote to Lady Susan
about the matter 6 shall take care, -
she writes, "to show that I am not
mortified to anybody; but if it is true
that one can vex anybody with re-
served, cold manner, he shall have it, |
promise him. Luckily for me, I did
not love him, and only liked. Nor
did the title weigh anything with me-
SO little at leas5 that my disappoint-
ment did not affect my spirits above an
hour or two, / believe. The thing am
most angry at is looking SO like a fool,
as ] shall for having gone so often for
nothing" She probably meant having
SO often gone out to the field to make
hay ut the King But" she proceeds,
Z" don't much care. If he were to
change his mind again (which can't be,
though, and not give a very, very good
reason for his conduct, | would not
have him" They met week after,
when everybody knew that the Neck
lenburg marriage was arranged. Poor
George was naturally enough confused:
and Lady Sarah, as she had promised,
was very cool and dignifed.
! In 1914, fifty three years after the
marriage of George Ill, a charity ser
mon was preached 10y the Dean of Can
terbury III behalf of an infirmary for
treatment of diseases of the eye, which
had been founded by George Ill, at
the time when he had begun to lose his
sight. He was now totally and incura-
1 bly, blind, a circumstance to which the
Dean eloqueptly alluded. Among the
hearers was an aged woman, who wept
bitterly. At the close of the survice
she had to be led out, for she too was
sightless. This blind old woman was
no other than the once beautiful Lady
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