Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-02-22
PRINCE LEOPOLD'S BRIDE.
Princess Helena OF WaIdeck Buying
Her TrOussesu at ParIs-Her Life
at Home.

The Princess Helena of Waldeck is
going to Paris, says the London Truth,
to buy her trousseau. She will procure
it at establishments patronized by the
Queen of Holland, and is to be taken to
them inc0gnjtG by a lady attached to the
Dutch Legation. am told that Queen
Emma is showing herself very generous
to her sister. who is to stay with her from
the time she has done with her Pari,i ian
outfitters until she goes to England to be
married. The ducal family of Pyrmont-
Waldeck is old, proud and far from rich.
Most of its domestic arrangements have
been made on the needs must principle
If the portions of the numerous daugh.
tiers of this house had been fairly
good the eldest of them would
not now he Queen of Holland.
Princess Helena is of a romantic dispo-
skiOn, although something Of blue
stocking Her fathers little State is
beautifully picturesque and fesrfully
poverty stricken. 1t is a country of high
hills, wooded glens and brawliug streams
and stresmlets. Prince Leopold met his
future wife at Rupenbeim. She is con
nected with the royal family of England
through the Duchess of Cambridge and
and the Princess of Wales, and was
highly spoken of by the Grand Duke of
Hesse.Darmstadt. He opined that she
would be Just the person to lead with
the Prince gu ct, studiOus life at Clare
mont, and be, if his health broke down,
a ministering angel to him. A member
of an embassy here bas told me that tie
Princess Helena would make an ideal
wife for an earnest and charitably dis.
posed English rector. Through the Mas
sau family, she has some great and
wealthy relations, but she has not been
reared in grand style. She is tres sim
pLette, fair, fresh, gentle, and of cheer
fui, even temper, and, though not very
dtstingue, she is certainly not rustic in
her unaffected simplicity.
THE SISTER
The Queen of Holland, by the by, is
coming out as leader of society at the
Hague. She is fond of elegant toilets.
music, dancing and such gayeties as the
Dutch capital affords. 1t appears that
she has grown quite pretty since her mar
rage. Her hair, which is of FURNISHED
blonde color, is very fine, and she under
stands how to dress it to advantage. The
complexion is made up of roses and lilies,
and the neck and arms, if wanting in
purity of outlire, are beautifully white
and plump. Blue is Her Maiesty's ia
vOrite color. She sits in boudOir hung
with blue silk, decorated with Nankin
blue porcelain, and she often dresses in
blues of various shades. At ba given
at the Palace about ten days ago she
was in a white satin skirt, covered
with old point lace, sky blue corsage
and train. and bad for garnitures and
headdresses blue feathers and pearls.
The sister of the Duchess of COnnaught
has thrown aside her widows weeds,
and was at the ball She and the Queen
danced into the small hours of the
morning. Princess Pauline, the youth
full heiress presumptive, suffers from
her teeth, and does not appear to have a
robust constitution. She may not, there
fore, stand in the wsv-of the Grand Du-
cal family of Saxe-Weimer. The Prince
of Orange, on the other hand, is
not so wretchedly delicate SIS he was, but
he keeps aloof from HIS father and step
mother, and is engaged In collecting
materials for history of the Dutch
branch of the Nassau family, which he
believes has got to the end of its tether