St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-29
A QUEENS SORROW.
Death of the Duke of Albany, Queen
VictOria's Youngest Son.
His Death Caused by Fall--General Regret
Over the Event.
DEATH OF PRINCE LEOPOLD.

the Earl of Seton and received the news on
Aintree race course. He returned at once to
London. The horses Spectrum and Callan-
der were weighed for the race, but the Duke
| OF Montrose and Sir George Chetwyn refused
to run them. Marlborough house is beseiged
with people calling to express their condol-
! ence.
! LONDON March 2S.-The surprise at the
| sudden death of the Duke of Albany was
greatly heightened by the fact thot it is re-
ported that he had attended a bachelors ball
at Nice last Sunday night and was looking in
fine health The Duchess of Albany is at
| Claremont hotel.
Sir Henry F. Ponsonby, private secretary
to Her majesty, telegraphs from Windsor to
the London bureau of the Associated Press
The queen is naturally distressed at the
| terrible news, but has borne it as well as
could be expected. Major General Sir John
| COwen, master of the queens household, pro-
ceeds at once to Cannes to fetch the duke of
Albany's remains to England The Curfew
bell at Windsor castle was told at half past
| this evening. The blinds of Buckingham
| palace are drawn. The duke of Albany had
gone to Cannes only few days ago for the
sake of his health. Nothing serious was an
ticipated. He was looking fairly well and
had been taking part in festivities of the
place, but he had severe chill which may have
been the cause of the fatal fit. Neither the
queen nor Princess Beatrice will attend the
wedding of Princess Victoria, of Hesse.
Gladstone is much affected by the dukes
death, Granville foreign secretary of state,
announced the death in the house of lords.
He expressed deep sorrow at the affection.
He did not move an adjournment, but said
he,
both houses. He gave notice that on Mon
day he would move an address of coincidence
to the queen and the duchess. Earl Carnar-
Won, in the absence of the marquis of Sails
bury, leader of the opposition, expressed the
profound grief with which he had heard the
sad intelligence. The secretary of state an
nounced the death in the commons, and
gave notice that on Monday he would move
an address of coincidence.
The body of the Duke of Albany will be
embalmed, and be brought to England at the
end of next week The remains will be
buried at Frogmore.
The cause of the Dukes death was an etfu-
sion of blood into the stomach and lungs.
There were no unusual premonitions, but the
symptoms had long been threatened. He
was subject to occasional attacks of internal
hemorrage. He had arranged to leave Can
mes, Monday next, as his health seemed to
be restored. During his soiourn at Cannes
he INDUCED in round of moderate gaieties.
Yesterday he gave dinner. A correspon-
dent writes from Cannes under date of Tues
day. The Duke, Saturday, was
at Venetian fete given in
his honor, and looked much better
than when he first came here. Before the
fete the duke and party dined at the Cosmo
restaurant and then went to a theatre, ar
irving at the fete in plenty of time to take
part in the entertainment.
In consequence of the dukes death the
marriage of Princess Victoria, of Hesse, and
Prince Louis, of Battenberg, and of Princess
Elizabeth and the Prince of Anhalt, have
been postponed
The newspapers last evening and this
morning appeared with mourning borders. A
special mourning supplement of the Gazette
announces the death of the duke and alludes
to the grief of the royal family. The queen
deputed the Princess Beatrice to visit the
Duchess of Albany but instructed her on no
account to divulge the fact of
the dukes death, the queen
wishing to make the communication
personally, her health permitting. Princess
Christiana, however, first informed her,
duchess was completely Frustrated. Earl
Kenmare is about to leave for Cannes to es-
cort the body home. All royal engagements
for the coming week are cancelled and the
court is ordered into mourning. Ex-Em-
press Eugene visited Windsor Castle and
informs her friends the queen is behaving
bravely. The queen clasped the ex-empress
in her arms and was evidently much con-
soled by her sympathy. kilograms of con-
dolence are arriving from all parts of the
world.
Prince Leopold, an account of whose sud-
den and awful demise was flashed
through air and ocean wave yesterday to all
parts of the civilized world, was the eighth
child of England's widowed queen. He was
born April Z, 1858, so that at the time of his
death he wanted ten days of being thirty
one years Of age. His full name, title and
style was Leopold George Duncan Albert
duke of Albany, knight of the garter, knight
of the thistle, prince of the royal blood and
peer of the realm. He was named first after
his grand uncle Leopold, of SAKE Coburg
Saalfeld, king of the Belgians.
Prince Leopold when he reached mans
estate was not strong and robust, but suffered
considerably from scrofula, and latterly was
subject to fits. In his youth he was quite
studious, and the general opinion was that
he would resemble his godfather, King Leo
pold in erudition and sagacity, but latterly
he was more given to fantastical and dreamy
theorizing than serious thought and solid
study, and his countenance gave Zest to the
affected aesthetic nonsense preached by
~ Il. Il,
a certain class till Sullivan & Gilbert's clever
opera, ''Patience,' gave it its death blow.
1t was stated that of late years the prince
was not strong, but it was thought that per
baps married life would prove beneficial to
him, and the court looked about for a suita-
Bile spouse for him. Several names were
mentioned in this connection, but at last it
was officially announced that Princess Helen
of Waldeck was the lucky maiden who was
to build up the young princes shattered
constitution When the name was first men
toned diligent search was made through
court calendars, gazetteers, cyclop@dias,
and every kind of literature which touched
upon blue blood and geography for the most
profoundly read in pedigrees and ancient
and noble families knew nothing of the
name and less of the principally. Diligent
search, however, revealed the fact that the
latter was an obscure circumscribed and poor
little estate in the center of Germany, and
the former was one of the oldest of the fam
lies Boosting of the purest and bluest of blue
blood. The princess was not handsome but
she was healthy and wholesome looking; as
fresh as field daisy and as innocent, and the
preparations for the nuptials were hurried
on apace, and the momentous day for the
suspicious event was appointed, but, alas
for hopes of human bliss, the bride must
perforce be disappointed. The bridegroom is
not ready, the spirit indeed is willing but the
flesh is weak, for the princess old malady