New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-05-09
ROYAL LOVES AND POLITICS.

GOSSIP THAT QUEEN VICTORIA IS PAVING THE
WAY FOR A GREATER MEsALLIANCN-THE
THEORY OF ROYAL BLOOD DEFILED BY MAR
RIAGE WITH sUDJECT-wAR OF THE BONA
PAR1E FACTIONS.
rFRoM TIE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT oP TIrR TRGBUNEl
PARIS April 22-The Queen of Hanover and her
second daughter the Princess Marie, ostentatiously
as their means permit tbem travel from the South
of France to Vienna while preparations are going
forward at Windsor for the Princess Frederica's
wedding. All Queen VictOria's German kith and
kin ncensed at tine Royal style with which the
nuptials of the interesting brde-eect are TO
be celebrated. But nowhere is anger greater than
at the Court of Denmark except in the circle of the
Empress Augusta. who blames her Majesty Tor
the plunge Prince William is about to take
into marimony with the niece of Prince
Christian of Schleswig- Hosteiu -SOnderburg-Au
gustcnburg. On system, it IL alleged by the
German connections of Victoria, her Majesty pro-
notes m6salliances in the Royal family. From this
point of view the Marquis of Lorne is not fit TO tie
the shoestIings of no matter what subsidized
prnceing of a sovereign house. When in Paris.
| Princess Louise never meets Princess H0henlOhe,
whOaccOrdiug to German idea, is, coming of unadul-
terated sovereign blood, entitled to walk before
hcr ROYAL IIghness. A morganatic marriage the
| Germans understand. 1t is a legal one except
for the purpose of transmitting subsidized
property or transmitting the privileges or serene,
regal or imperial rank. The Duchess of Kent was
supposed to have entered into "A eft-handed mar
rage of this sort with Sir George Cowper and none
of her Teutonic kindred thought the worse of her
for the suppos!tion But had she openly taken her
equerry-in- waiting for n husband. the would
have been different II her Majesty now, the Ger
man theory is cOuntenances the love match OF the
HauOyCuan Princess it is because she wants to pre-
pare the minds of her subjects for still more shock
ing m6salahcc. which was announced at Baden as
being resolved upon.
The Prince of Wales on questions of etiquette, is
very German in his IDEAS But he is attached to his
cousin FREDERICK and he is in the habit OF implicitly
obeymg the Queens commands. am told that he
does not half like the idea of Baron Pawel-kammin-
gen entering the Royal family by marriage with
daughter of the head of the Hanoyeran house. But
his opinion is that, by her devotion to her blind
father, the late King, the Princess Frederick has
won for herself au exceptional place in the Royal
family and raised herseR above the fetters and
trammes which bind down personages of the
highest rank. While the late King lived
it was her firm intention to have never forsaken
him, In being his AntigOne, she learned what
sweetness duties n0by performed, and high affec-
tions freely induced in, give TO human existence.
Baron Pawsl-I5ammingcu belongs to an ancient
Saxe-COburg family. He is a man of excellent
education and a thorough gentleman. The attach
ment bet yccn him and the Princess sprung up when
he was house steward and confidential secretary of
the blind King. Amatch between Princess Frederick
and the Grand Duke of Hesso Darmstadt
was mooted at Sandrngham But the
fair AntigOne of modern times pre-
fcrrcd following the dictates Of her heart to
beng at dull q ernan Court, the successor of the
lamentcd Princess Alice Prince Bismarck de-
lighted at the publicity given TO the Pawcl-kam-
miugcn marriage which he calculates will lessen
the influence of the house of Hanover in Germany.
HOW ROYAL BLOOD Is YGLIFIED.
The Dowager Duchess Of Hamilton for the first
time in her life went to paw her court to the Queen
of England when her Majesty was staying at the
Villa IIohcnlohc. That lady is by birth Princess
of Baden. When she married, thirty years
ago the Marquis Of Douglas, son and
heir Of tho Duke Of Hamilton, she
was. when she applied for permission
to attend drawing groom at ST. james, told that
she could only be received as Marchioness of Doug
las and not ~ Princess of Baden. 1t was held by
the Queen and Prince Consort and by the Baron
5ockmar that her blood was vifed by her union
! with an English nObleman, and it must therefore
be supposed she derived all her rank from him. A
daughter OF the late Duke of Richmond, the Prin-
cess Edward of SaXe-Wcimar, was excluded from
ROYAL .drawing-rooms in pursuance of German
etiquette; but she used to go to private dinner par
ties rs Countess OF DOnberg, q tile conferred on
her by her father-n-law, the late Grand Duke Bern
| hard of Saxc-Weimar brother of the Empress Au-
g1lsta Of Germany.
Louis Napooons match with Eug6nie de MontIjo,
and the sovereign status which she at once assumed
Ioosened the prejudces which took deep root in the
Prince Consorts time at the Court Of England.
Since his DEATH the Princess Louise has lost rank
'as Duchess of SaXOay" by her union with the
heir of MacCaum More. If she had il son he could
only take rank in Germany as a grandson of Queen
Victoria and he would not be apt his Albertine
blood being vilifed, to inherit a shred OF SaxeCO-
burg-GOtha property.
| heard recently at the German Embassy a
curious dsqusition on the great "viliied" houses
of Europe. Strictly speaking, the Duchess of
Hamilton was not entitled to rank rs the daughter
of q sovereign house, either before or after her
marriage, her mother, having been a Beau
harnas, and by birth a subject of the Bour-
bons. This destroyed the blood of her branch
of the Grand Ducal family, and had her
father had by his French wife a son, the German
Confederation would have disputed his right to
succeed to the Grand Ducal inheritance. under
that at the Court of Germany they gard the
interest taken in the Princess Frederica's marriage
as a sign that John Brown, esp" will e'er long
stand in the relation of father-ln-law to his COM
patriot the Marquis of LOrne.
THE MAKING OF vICToRiAs BRIDAL DRESS.
gave you an account by telegraph Of tile we'd
ding robe of the Princess Frederick which has been
On show in the warerOoms Of Madame Larchene, in
the Rue des Capucnes. The tissue in the train was
furnished by a silk weaver of Lyons and designed
after n pattern of Queen Victora's own bridal
dress, which was woven by a Spitalfeds
loom. The designer was NJ. GreppO, now a
Deputy for Paris, who at the period of the
Queens marriage was a political refugee
in London. He was as a Lyons workman
implicated in the terrible riots which broke out in
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