St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-09-19
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Town Topics.
l have piece of interesting news for the
ladies' Prince Albert Victor, the eldest
son of the Prince of Wales, aud the pros
pective King of England, is to marry an
American. His father and mother have
been led to this decision partly through
the paucity of Protestant families reigning
in Europe, and partly through the popular
discomfort at the constant German alliances.
The only Protestant houses with mar
riageable daughters are those of the petty
German princes; and the dlsfavor which
has greeted the marriages of the Duke of
Edinburg and the Princess Beatrice is at
tributed by the Queen to the facts that the
former took wife of another than the
accepted English faith, and that the latter
married a German.
This dilemma has been constant source
of trouble to the Prince and Princess of
Wales. The stability of the throne itself
depends on the selection of their eldest
sons wife. EngliShmen of the present
generation will not brook Catholic on or
near the throne, and there is not to-day, as
in 1864, reigning prince, like the king of
Denmark, with bevy of fair daughters to
wear the crowns Of the Protestant realms.
Moreover, as the political isolation of En-
gland has increased the popular dislike of
everything German has grown with it. In
society this sentiment has been shown by
manifestations against the TeckS and the
Battenbergs. Among the masses it has as
sumed dangerously threatening form. No
German prince or princess can ever again
be brought into the loyal family Of Great
Britain.
Lord Beaconsfeld was the first to suggest
that the queens eldest grandson should
take an American wife. The willy old
statesman had in his lifetime seen so many
social preiudices broken down, so many ap-
parently inSuperable barriers removed. that
he foretold the day when the English mon
archy and the American republic should
finally join hands. Every marriage of an
English peer or peers son to an American
has brought this day nearer; and the favor
with which the American peereSseS are re-
ceived. their charms of person and Intellect,
their easy supremacy in the highest draw
ing-roomS of London, proved to careful
watchers of the times that the ultimate re-
suit was inevitable. In the iDnermoSt cir
cles of the court it was rumOred nearly
wear ago that the Prince of Wales would
look to the United States for wife for his
eldest son.
Consequently, both he and the princess
have done everything in their power to en-
nance the social popularity of American
women in London. He personally under
took to arrange the wedding of Lord Cairns
and Miss Grant, and it was at his advice
that the match was broken off. At all state
balls and concerts he paid conspicuous at
tention to the American ladies, and few
of our hOmeward-b bellies, flushed with
the social triumphs in London, are aware
that they have simply served to prepare the
way for the greatest wedding in England.
The queen, who has long outlived her an
tipathy to Americans, gave her consent to the
scheme at its outset; and the Princess of
Wales, who used to complain that American
girls were cloud" now expresses herself as
being entirely pleased with the idea of
Prince Albert Victors marriage to one of
th9m have heard whispers that young
| lady has been already designated by the
queen. However, all my informants agree
| that the time is not yet ripe for the publ
cation of her name. All that is absolutely
certain is that Prince Albert Victor is to
marry an American, and that. unless the
| tidal wave of democracy sweeps away the
British throne, an American girl will yet
be queen of England. To have limited at
such contingency would, few years ago,
have been regarded as lunacy. To-day il
will be calmly accepted, and will simply
resolve itself into the question, ''Who is
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