Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1885-05-21
Queen yictoria's Low Beginnings.

queen NlctOflas Low beginnings.
There is not noble family in Europe
which has not risen from lower begin
nings than the Hungerfords and Mac
kays. The queen OF England is direct.
ly descended from the daughter of
tanner who was bcheld washing
clothes by Robert the Devil, a ducal
robher, and he forthwith sent for her
to be brought to him. without asking
her permission or her papa's and the
consequence was William the Norman,
bastard, whose proper name in his
tory is by the name OF William the
Bastard, and SO he Is called by Mr..
Freeman, who has wasted great deal
of white paper in making his life.
Take up Burk's great book OF the
peerage, and you will find, at the be-
ginning the descent of the queen of
England, starting with William the
Bastard.
Nor is the queen latest generation
any more respectable in real morals.
Her father was II debauched and
nearly impotent duke, one of band
of most scandalous and licentious and
trifling brothers. whom old George
ILL.,, the crazy man, begot. None OF
these sons could get any children, at
least none with sufficient vitality to
survive and be crowned. There was
the basis disease in the family, and it
generally goes 10 Their heads sooner
or later. Finally il was told to the
duke of Kent, one of these brothers,
who had preserved n little fragment
of manhood, that there was quite
child bearing widow over in Germany
who had hardly anything to live on,
and who might bring an heir to this
SO called Guellish house. The widow
was sent for, and brought to England
and put in the quarters of the duke
of Kent. The result was the last
chance-Victoria.
When il came 10 Nictoria's turn to
marry, Il poor Young German, not of
much more ac cunt than Miss Moro
sinis coachman lover. came to make
his impression. being steered-to use
a polite phrasc--by old King Leopold,
the matrimonial broker between Eng
land and the continent. This second
generation of poor people brought up
the British royal family so that the
queen has had tine parcel of young
children. III they would only strike
something poor within the next two
generations this family may survive
a century or two longer. saw the
prince of Wales bride come into Lon
don. She was "A fine looking girl, tall
and straight, and would pass for good
looking anywhere between New Bed
ford and Dorchester Heights. Little
Dagmar, who was even prettier,
though not so tall and command
ing. rode in the procession 1t was
in 1868. 1t has been the fortune of
the British royal house that the
religious prejudices of the people
there have restricted them to the
rather inferior courts. 1t is true that
the house of Prussia has intermarried
with the English royal family, but
Prussia also has been brought up by
an absteminons and Woodworking line
of Dutchmen Unless | am mistaken,
the blood of Admiral Coligny is in the
royal house of Prussia, derived there
from Louise Coligny. who married the
prince of Orangc-William, the Silent.
Yet il seems ridiculous in an age like
ours that the daughters OF the queen
of England, on mere grounds of sec
tarianism, cannot marry into as re-
spectacle family a. that of the Or
leanists of France. The English law
is only beating the devil around the
bush, because all those houses with
which their families intermarried have
marriage connections with the Catholic
houses. The royal family of Belgium,
and the royal family of Brazil, though
both are Catholic, are connected with
the house of Orleans, and consequently
the queen of England is kin to these
Catholic houses.
The simple fact about the ecclesasti.
cal business is, there is so much greed
both in the church and the state that
each great family of Christians keeps
what il possesses ami is afraid to let
the other religion come in. Old Henry
VIII. had great many cOurtiers and
warriors whom he had used to beat
the Scotch and for other things; he
had lean purse and not great deal
of land, so he took all the convent
lands in England and gave them to
his followers. He took all the cathe-
drals and churches himself, and con-
stituted himself pope of England, and
when the prince OF Wales is to be
crowned rs king the solemn farce will
be observed of rubbing oil into that
young mans hand and oiling his hair
and doing n great deal of mummery
over him, all Protestant mummery,
too; and then he will have sort of
silver stick stuck in one hand aud per-
haps gold stick stuck in the other
hand, and one of these sticks consti-
tutes him pope and the other stick
constitutes him king. and between
the two he is good deal of stick
himself. Is it supposable that any
modern race of Anglo-Saxons will long
endure this opera boufle performance
Ill