Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-05-01
A ROYAL FAMILY ROMANCE.
The Princess LOuise's Early Love-StOry Re
called by Prince LeOpOld's Death.

The Princess Louise's Early Love-story Re-
called by Prince LeOpOld's Death.
London Letter.
The poor princess of Waldeck Pyr-
mont, who little while ago was Prince
LeopOld's bride, and now his widow,
faithfully fulfilled the functions of chief
nurse to the most delicate of ali the
children of the robust queen of England.
From his infancy upward Prince Leo
pold was sickly. Besides assimilating
all known and possible ailments, he
originated unclassi6ed and gruesome dis
eases. He had mysterious falls, occa-
stoned by feebleness of. bone. Sudden
and artesian appearances of the royal
blood on the surface were caused, it is
darkly limited, by paucity of cutaneous
tissue out of the seven skins allotted to
human beings, he was one short. Hence,
colds, fevers, chills, secret and inspect
fled susceptibilities, resulting in illness,
always translated into the chronic an
nOuncement: Prince Leopold is again
confined to his room"
While still boy, and almost entirely
a prisoner on his couch, the Princess
Louise developed such Overweening
fondness for him that she insisted on
| sharing with him the teachings of his
tutor. The perceptions of the royal pu-
pill were not so dulled by his state but
that he noticed how eagerly his sister
drank in the precepts of the divine, how
both united in smoothing his pillow, and
he began to be alarmed. With remark
able foresight he informed the Queen
that a communion so close was unfit for
his sister, fnot dangerous; that it was
not necessary for a princess of Great
Britain to be trained to epistOlary inter
course, to the setting of love-songs to
music, and to be weaned by subtle and
potent spells from the rigid observance
of court etiquette. So the letters were
exacted, the love-songs destroy ed, the
intercourse in study and sick room inter-
rupted, the boy praised for his discrim-
inatiOn, the tutor presented with a fat
living, which by and by ripened into
canOnry, and ukase went forth that
from the unmarried sons of dukes a con-
sort should be chosen for the too inn
questionable princess.
Everyone remembers how this an
nOunCement was the means Of hurrylng
into sudden and Unexpected engagements
more than one of those ducal scions,
who madly, wildly proposed under the
spur of that great dread to the very dam
sci who had long and YEARLY :ried to
lure them on to wedlock. About the
time of the announcement of the Mar
quls of Lorne's marriage, the future Can
on preached his first sermon in subur-
ban church. It was evening, the lights
were dim, aisle and gallery were filled
with sympathiZing women; it was a
great attraction" and drew largely. He
discOursed on Disappointed Affections"
Looking around, 1 saw few dry eyes, and
l heard that the next morning the house
of the new vicar was besieged by fair
parishiOners anxious to prove that some
hearts could be true.
Prince Leopold remained his old tu-
tors friend. The same uncompromising
sense of justice which would not let him
remain passive accOmplice to what he
considered a swerving from the straight
path, made him stand by the divine
when dark, and maybe not unmerited,
suspicious attached to his name. Per-
haps he felt some pity for the man who
had touched with his hand so high a
prize and seen it wrenched from his
grasp.
For time the Duke of Albany leased
and inhabited Boyton This pretty and
rural if not exactly princely abode was
his favorite retreat, and he spent his
time there in comparative retirement.
from occasionally meeting strangers;
and he cOurteOusly allowed any stray
traveller passing the gates on a coaching
tour, riding trip, or road yachtingj jour
ney to visit BOytOn. He amused him
self with house decorating, introducing
the fashion of beamed, papered, and
Flemish-looking ceilings, and he presid-
ed with gentle courtesy over simple re-
lection of cake and wine offered to pass
ing guests.