The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-01-19
The Next Roya! Wedding.

An abSurQ New YORK journal. speak
ing of the Princess Beatrice and the
proposed marriage 20 Princess Oscar of
Sweden and Norway, says she is four
teen wears old, having been born in
1887. AS her father, Prince Albert,
Jied IN 1861, the Princess must be
credited with extraordinary staying
power. The Princess is a charming
riil. She was born in 1S5 I, and IS. CON
sequently, of the same age as the slori-
ousiy handsome young Prince to whom
she Is likely to be wed. The Princess
las had hard time u her loves, if court
roesips are to be believed. She was
very much in love with one Of her music
masters Il few years ago, and gave the
,oyal family considerable uneasiness
y protesting her purpose to marry the
sauth. Sue was carried of by the
Queen, however, to Scotland, and i'm
.neiscd IN new studies, and made to
.oraet the darkeyed youth who had
sung more than the score and the scales
in their daily duets.
The most piqGant gossip anent the
Princess was that which associated her
name with the unfortunate Louis Bona
parte, the lad who died il South
Africa. The Empress encouraged her
son to push his suit, and the Queen her
self was more than willing, as i. alieged.
But reasons of State were strong
against the match. The French Re
ru5lic would have regarded it as a
crSus GeNt. Germany would hav pro
tested against the relation OF brother
in-law which would in that Gaze exist
between the futu-eEmperoF OF Germany
aud the possible future Emperor of the.
French. Beatrice herself was very fond
Of young ~Bonaparte. They were seen to
gether every week at Windsor and The
Iad was always welcome at the Queens
table. Lord Beaconsfield, at the
Queen suggestion wrote a memoran-
cum for the Queens guidance in the
matter. SO soon as she had read this
she submitted it to the Empress Eu
genie and the plan was suspended,
though not permanently abandoned.
Ii was to give it a chance of carrying
out that the Empress finally consented
to her sons going to Africa, foreseeing
thar if he acquitted himself we'll there
he enthusiasm aroused would make
her boy virtually the idol of the Eng
lish people and then nothing would be
refused him.
Whether Prince Louis was SO eager
for the match there is some reason to
doubt. The very day he sailed a beau~
tiful young woman with an infant took
lodgings at the great watering>place OF
the south of England, Bath, and it was
o limited that she was the secretly
welded wife Of the French pretender.
Dates and names were given by the
young woman so soon as the news ofthe
Princes death was brought to Europe
Later a foreigner visited the young wo
man, who had changed her garments
to black. Still later a lady, deeply
yelled, but whose figure correspondent
exactly with the Empress Eugenie's,
was announced in the Bath lodgings, and
presently thereafter the group disap-
peared. The rumor ran that the EN-
press, satisfied of the paternity of the
child, had adopted both mother and
babe. La proof of this, the Swiss
chateau where Eugenie's husband was
reared was for the first time in years
put in order and occupied part Of that
year by a beautiful young woman with
a baby boy.-Phiadelphia Times Let
ter.