Wilmington journal., 1875-07-30
IOIsNE THE FORLORN.
The N0uT fuf Trouble of Having q
Queen for a MOther.iM-LaW,
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The private unhappiness of the Mar
quis of Lorne, the husband of the
Princess Louise, is fast becoming q
public theme in England. One of the
satirical journals of London, the HOr-
net, has gone so far lately as to depict
the youthful heir of the McCullum
More standing i'll an attitude of indig-
nant remonstrance behind his stately
brothers-in-iaw, the Prince of Wales
and the Duke of Edinburgh, who pass
him by with serene Indifference, swing
ing their umbrellas and deep i'll dis
daInful converse upon other topics.
The disguised expression of the mar
quis' fsce gives plquancv to the legend
of the cartoon, ''am L not man, a
brother ?" The Hornet accompanies
its picture, too, with an amusing arti-
Gle, which we transfer to our columns,
on the sorrows of "a blighted being"
There can be no doubt that the duke
and duchess of Argyll did their son
and heir a very questionable kindness.
We suspect, when they accepted for him
the hand, to say nothing of the heart,
of a princess of the British blood
royal. In the earlier days of the Brit
ish monarchy, alliances between the
reigning families both of England and
of Scotland and the nobility of those
kingdoms were neither infrequent nor
necessarily uncomfortable. No i'm
passable gulf of etiquette then divided
the princes of the blood from the
great aristocracy of the realm. But the
house of Hanover always has been,
and still is an essentially German
house, possessed with all the German
notions of the sovereign dignity and of
the abyss which divides it from all
other forms of human life. The house
of Hanover imported into England in
the royal marriage act the principles
of those Morganatic unions so COM
mon among the German sovereign
princes. George the Fourth was not,
perhaps, too scrupulous a person to
lie upon occasion; but there is a good
reason to believe that when he allen
ated Fox by the deliberate falsehood
which..he told him about his marriage
with Mrs. F'itz Herbert, he really
thought that he was only tampering
gently with the facts, being, as his
slucation had made him feel, quite alb
surd to supposed that any marriage
could be a marriage which united d
prince of the house of Guelph to a
simple pentlewoman. Prince Albert
brought with him to England fresh
infusion of the princely Teutonic feel
ing on this subject and it was tie
cause for years of difficulties between
himself and the British nobility, that
he could not divest himself of the
habit of regarding all persons below
the throne as lost in one common mist
of absolute inferiority. The Teutonic
princes, in deed, know but two classes
of human beings, sovereigns and sub
iects AS an English duke once put
the case in speaking of Prince Albert,
the Saxon Prince n see social diff
ference between me and my valet"
Precisely how her majesty came to
conceive of such a project as she car
ried out in reverting to the earlier |
English precedents on this subject |
md marrying her daughter to the |
Ieir of great Scottish race Is not |
lutte clear, nor does it matter much. |
Her majesty's sons evidently do not |
hare her msjesty's feelings on this
read. Perhaps they do not take
indy to their noble brother-in-law as
man. At all events, they have never
or an instant relaxed in his favor the
igid rules of Teutonic princely life.
They keep him at a distance, not in
,rivate only, but in public. 1t was
otorious in London some time ago
hat the Marquis of Lorne was per-
directed by an equerry of
IS brother-in-law, the heir apparent,
D leave the royal tent which he had
without a special invitation
n the occasion of a garden party.
When the marquis accompanied his
life to to the court of Berlin, on a Wis
to her sister, the crown princess of I
'ermany, be was not more civilly
,eated. While the princess entered !
,e imperial family. cirle. the marquis
as left to cool his heels among the
obility outside. In fact, the celebra- s
ID John Dean, of New York, notorie-
;, had no more trouble and underwent I
D sharper torments in his efforts to {