Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1877-12-04

THE OLD SCANDAL THAT KEPT AWAY THE
ROYAL FAMILY FROM THE NoRFoLK-HAsT-
| INGs INITIALS
| Referring TO the marriage the other day of
| the Duke of Norfolk TO Lady Flora Hastings
| the New York World says;
o. The first Marquis Of Hastings was our old
divided with Tarieton the honors such as they
were, of the British campaigns in Virginia and
a f Se became Earl Of M1 nh as and IN sls
he married Flora Campbell, Countess of Lou
douu in her own right. Twelve years after
ward he was created MARQUIS of Hastings He
died in lSSi: his oldest daughter. Lady Flora
Hastings, was lady of the bedchamber Ia the
Duchess of Kent. the mother of Queen Vie
tOlia. After her accession To the crown the
young Queen, IL was said, conceived certain
jealousy Of Lady Flora. i'm connection With the
attentions paid her by nobleman. Lord
rumored. the youthful sovereign felt regard
not recognized Ivy the royal marriage act Of
Great Britain. Be this aS il may. suspicious
were provoked as 10 The conduct of Lady
Flora, which led Ia decisive ACTON on the part
of the young Queen, and 10 a terrible social
scandal i'm London. The friends of the young
lady were intensely eNaSperated by the courS.
pursued by The Queen. and the Young lady
herself fairly broke down and died under the
shame and suffering inflicted on her by the
notorlety OF the whole affair. After her death
IN 1859 an autopsy demonstrated her entire in
nocence. and naturally envenomed the views
taken by her widespread and powerful family
connection of the whole matter. Lady Flora :
brother. the second Marquis of Hastings mar
ried the Baroness Grey de Ruthyn in 1881. and
died In 1874, leaving by her two sons and four
daughters. The eldest son. who succeeded "a
third Marquis, lived only seven years after his
accession. and was succeeded by his Younger
brother. Henry MeSford Charles Plantagenet
fourth and last Marquis This Young noble
man. born in lS42, died i'm 1855 having con
trived in his short life to run through; his
magnlhcent patrimony in a career of splendid
dissipation and reckless gambling quite unri-
vailed since the days of the wicked Duke of
wharton -Four years before his death the last
Marquis married Lady Florence Paget. a
daughter OF the Marquis of AngleSea who
AFTER appearing one night at the opera as the
aiilalced bride of Mr.. Henry Chaplin the next
day drove to shop in Oxford street, passed
through IT, came out in We're street. got into
another carriage, and went on to become Mar
chionesS of Hastings. On the death of The
fourth Marquis all his titles except his scotch
hOnorS became extinct. or fell in allegiance
and his sister, Lady Edith Maud Hastings
succeeded nm as Countess of Loudoun
Baroness of Loudoun. Farrinyean and Maurh-
line in the peerage of Scotland. In ISL Sh,.
became also BARONESS of BOtreauX. Hunger
ford. Hastings, aud de Moleyns in the peerage
of England. With extraordinary energy Sh.
devoted herself Ia clearing OFF the incum-
bTanceS left upon the great family estates by
her spendthrift brother. and before her death
in 1874 she succeeded completely i'm doing this
50 that her son, the present Earl of Loudoun
and the brother of the newly made Duchess of
Norfolk, entered then upon the ENJOYMENT of
noble property put into order by the skill
patience, and courage of his mother At her
death the Countess of LOndOun. who had never
foot in the Court of Queen Victoria. charged
her heirs to cut of her right hand and To bury
II clenched under a column of white marble
ornamented by cross. at an angle of her seat
of bennington Park, in Derbyshire. which
ONerlO0kS Il long range of the railway over
Which the Queen yearly travels northward To
BamOraL ON the column she ordered them 10
inscrlbe the grim and menacing motto: Il
bide my time. So stern and SupeTsttious a
hatred, belonging il would seem to other times
than ours, teStifieS at least To the reSolute and
fearless temper OF the blood which flows
through the veins of yesterdays young bride