St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-13
BEATRICE AND BATTENBERG.
Il London journals Remark Concernin0
the Coming Roya' Marriage.
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the Coming Roya' Marriage.
From the London Referee.
Every loyal subject must have been glad to
hear that the Princess Beatrice is at last to
enter the married state. She is rising 90,
and if report speaks truly might have been
wed any time these ten years but for the OBJ
lection possessed by the head of the house to
being left entirely without member of her
own family as com panion. This was very
hard on the young princess, who somehow or
other does not seem very much better off now
that the edct is withdrawn. Possibly 1t is
not altogether withdrawn, as we note 1t is
stated as a condition Of the queens giving
her consent TO the union that the young
couple shall reside always with her. This,
however, we take to be merely way Of con
ceaing the bridegroom inability to provide
for his bride in any way suitable to her con-
diton. Poverty, SO the saying has it, is no
sin and yet it is no end of shame that,
simply because the highest and the best of
England's arstocracy are voted not good
enough for alliance with England's royal
house-which, though England's royal house
is in no way Engish-the most petty and
beggArly OF German princelings should fall
in for the fat thing. Surely it is time an act
passed for vile and selfish purposes in the
reign of king who was only redeemed from
being the vilest and most selfish Of his kind
by bigheadedness and emi-idocy, was
either revoked or left in desuetude. Provid-
ing the British nobility be not sufficiently
cup to the mark, for the British prncesses,
by all means let the British princesses have
something better, not something far worse,
as they get now. If Prince Henry of BatteD-
berg is really prince, then all the Sous Of
the Duke Of Beaufort or any other duke are
dukes and so on throughout the peerage.
The idea that our royal prineesses must not
under the marriage act mate with any under
royal rank is absurd; it is proved to be any
thing but fact by the marriages already made
with serene higbnesses who, without the
income Of skilled English laborer in good
employ, find their way over here and bate
upon English dullDess and En- lish stupidity.
BIZ all means let US have foreign alliance
when foreign alliance is a good or only a fair
thing FOR this country, but it is no less than
shocking that the revenues We require so
much ourselves should be eaten Up By
crowd Of small German parasites, many Of
whom who never knew what good meal or
a sound suit Of clothes was until their ar
rival in this country. The Marquis Of Lorne
the eldest son Of the Macallum Moore
is far better bred man, IL there is anything
IN breeding of this sort, than nine out Of ten
OF the other folk who haye intermarried with
our royal family; yet he and his wife cannot
20 to court on even terms. He has to stand
back, while the dingiest of the one-sbirted
Germans may ruffie it with the best com
pany. Our royal family is not only Of di-
rect and complete German descent aud Ger
man sympathy, but the court, whenever held
is CONDUCTED On strict German lines. The
uious fashion is 70 hope the young couple
may be happy; We may rest assured that one
Of them will be.