The Grange advance., 1874-09-30
A Royal Romance.

AenSlnSLOQ mouse, once Tue fOyal
residence, is near Holland House, where
Lady Sarah Lennox, 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 af-
ter his accession and before his corona
ton, as good as asked her, in his awk-
ward, stupid way, to be his queen. At
4 Dall given in the palace he took her
cousin, Lady Lucy Strangways, one side
and asked her when she meant to leave
town. She replied that she intended to
stay for the coronation. He said that
this would not take place at present,
for there would be no coronation until
there was queen; and added, IL think
your friend is the fittest person for it..
Tell her so from me-: The next time
Lady Sarah was at court, the King led
her to window and inquired. 'sHas
your friend told you of my conyersa-
tion with her!" eyes, SIR was the an
swer. "And what do you think of i+?''
Nothing, SIR Nothing comes from
nothing answered George frettishly,
and turned on his heel.
The truth is, the girl was engaged in
a Irritation with the rather disreputa bic
Lord Newbottle. She soon afterwards
went into the country, fell from her
horse, and fractured her leg, and had a
quarrel with Lord Ncwbottle. The
King was most assiduous in his inqui-
rics after her; and when she came back
to Holland House it was at least with a
strong liking for George. 1t was OBJ
served also that every fine morning he
was wont to ride along quiet lane
which sl@irted the grounds of Holland
House, and that Lady Sarah was sure
to be on the lawn picturesquely dressed,
and raking hay like another Maud Null
Ter. This courtshlp became the talk at
court, and Fox was evidently confident
that his sister-in-law was lo be Queen
Of England. The court, and especially
the personages of the blood royal, took
alarm at the prospect that one of rank
inferior to their own would be placed
above them. Lord Butte, the Prime
Minister, sent secret emissary to look
out for queen among the princely
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 abandon the lovely
Sarah and ask the hand Of the ugly
Charlotte is not certainly known. 1t is
said that the straw which broke the
back of his resolution was sight of a
neatly written letter from the pen Of
little Charlotte ABOUT the horrors Of
war and the blessings of peace. But in
the early summer of l76l Lady Sarah
was awakened from her ha ymaking
and dreams of a crown by reports
almost certainly authentic that the
King was to be married to the Mecklen-
burg princess; and she took pen in
hand and wrote to Lady Susan about
the matter. II shall take care" she
writes, ''to show that 1 am not morti-
fled to anybody; but if it is true that
one can vex anybody with a reserved,
old 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
least, that my disappointment did not
affect my spirits above an hour or two,
[ believe. The thing I am most angry
at is looking so like fool, as shall for
having gone go often for nothing.' She
probably meant having 50 often gone
out to the field to make hay at the
King. ''But," she proceeds, II don't
much care. If he were to change his
mind again (Which can't be, thought,
and not give very, very good reason
for his conduct, l would not have him."
They met week after, when everybody
knew that the Mecklenburg marriage
was arranged. Poor George was natu-
rally enough confused; and Lady
Sarah, as she had promised. was very
cool and dignified.
In 1874 fifty three years after the
marriage of George ILL.,, charity SER
mon was preached by the Dean Of Cam
terbury, in 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-
bly, blind, circumstance to which the
Dean eloquent]y alluded. Among the
hearers was an aged woman who wept
bitterly. At the close of the service
she had to be led out, for she too, was
sightless. This blind old woman was
no other than the once beautiful Lady
Sarah Lennox.--1he Galary for Sep
tensber.
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