Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-12-21
Marrying = Princess.


1eBsbIe bar contains IN exceedingly
interesting review Of Lord John Her.
vey's Memoirs, containing the pictures
which Hervey presents here and there
Of the court life Of George
II. The memoirs come to an end
with the death Of Queen Caroline.
The following sketch OF the marriage
Of the Princess Ann, the material for
which is drawn from these memoirs,
is worth quoting:
1.-The Queen hxd blessed her choler-
ic little lord and master with various
pledges Of her love, and. rs the Prin.
cess Royal vas DOW ut an age to enter
the holy state II matrimOny, the ques-
ton was often discussed between the
royal pair. Where was the husband to
be found? The Princess Royals per
sonal beauties we're lively. clean look
and very fine complexion, though
she was marked . good Lel with small
pox the fault of her person was that of
being very il,-nade and O great pro-
pensity To fat
1t was necessary that the consort OF
her Royal Highness should he Prot
estant, but it SO appeared that ut the
time there was a lack of Protestant par
lis fit to mate with q Princess of Eng
land. After diligent inquiry the
Prince Of Orange was discovered to lie
tn only young mau who could he seri.
ously considered, and he, from the pOr-
trait that has been handed down to us,
could hardly be esteemed an eligible
choice. He was poor. his estate not
clear 50. OOO year. He was q dwarf,
and AS much defOrmed as it was posi-
BILE for human creature to be- 1t
was miserable match, both in point
of man and fortune However, as the
courts of Europe were unable to lead
to the altar any more promising speci
mems of their order, the Princess had
to choose, not between this prince and
any other, but between husband and
no husband, between an Indifferent set.
Element and no settlement at all; and
whether she would be welded to this
piece of deformity in Holland, or die
an ancient maid immured in her royal
convent at st. James, AS she appre-
hended, says Hervey, the consequences
of not being married at all must one
time or other be worse than even the
being SO married. she very prudently
submitted to the present evil to avoid
q greater in futurity.' According.
ly the happy news was dispatched to
every court on the Continent, and Par
lament, generously allowed the future
wife a dowery of 100000. Early in
November the bridegroom arrived in
London, and took up his abode in
Somerset House. The King held the
kind view that the Prince Orange was
a nothing till he married his daughter,
and that being her husband made
him everything; consequently his Ma
jesty suffered no sort of public honors
to be paid to his intended son.in-law,
while he himself behaved toward him
scarcely with common civillty. The
Tower guns were not allowed to salute
the Prince, nor was the guard permit
ted to turn out upon his arrival.
Though the prologue was inaus-
picious, the play was duly performed.
The marriage took place on the 14th
of March, 1874. 1t was celebrated in a
little French chapel adjoining st.
James House, and was packed with o
mostfashionable audience. The Prince
of Oranges whole retinue was as mag
nificent as gold and silver varied in bro
cade, lace and embroidery could make
them, and the jewels he gave the Prin-
cess were ofimmense value, particularly
tho necklace, which was so large that
twenty-five diamonds made the whole
round of her neck During the cere-
mony the King behaved very we'll, but
the Queen and her daughters treated
the whole affair with undisguised and
unaffected concern. The bridegroom
appeared less ridiculous figure in his
splendid wedding array than was to
have been expected from such an Esop.
With him nature was greatly assisted
by all the tricks and devices of art: it
was therefore a terrible revelation when
he had to display himself in the sim.
plicity of his hideous imperfections,
for. unadorned, he was not the most
adorned. According to the gross fash
ion of his day, it was the custom, when
royalty was united in the bonds of mat.
rimony, for the whole court to enter the
nuptial chamb,r and pay their respects
to the young couple when in bed. We
are told that when the Prince of Orange
came in his night-gown and night-cap
into the room to go to bed, the appear
ance he made was indescribable; from
the shape of his brocaded gown and the
make OF his back, he looked behind as
if he had no head, and before as if he
had no neck or legs. The sight OF her
son-in law was too much for the mater
nal heart of the Queen.
Lord Hervey endeavored to console
her Majesty with the easy philosophy
of man Of the world. Madam, said
he, in half year all persons are alike;
the figure of the body ones married to,
like tho prospect Of the place one lives
at, grows so familiar to ones eyes, that
one looks at it mechanically without
regarding either the beauties or deform-
tiles that strike q stranger As was to
be expected, the marriage did not result
in much happiness to either Of the con-
tracing parties"
The income of the Prince Louis Ma
poleon, Eugenies son. is only q, 900 u
year, derived from little property in
Illyria left him by the Princess Bscci-
Ochi. The smallness Of the Princes
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