Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1886-11-03

One of Our Countrywomen Said to Have
Been Selected as Wife for Prince Al
bert Victor, Eldest Son of the Prince of
Wales.
Ihave u piece of interesting news for
the ladies. Prince Albert Victor, the
eldest son Of the Prince of Wales, and
the prospective 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 manageable
daughters are those of the petty German
princes; and the disfavor which has
greeted the marriages Of the Lake of
Edinburgh and the Princess Beatrice is
attributed by the queen to the facts that
' the former took wife of another than
the accepted English faith, and that the
latter married German.
A CONSTANT SOURCE OF TROUBLE.
This dilemma has been a constant
source of trouble to the Prince and Prin-
cess of Wales. The stability of the throne
itself depends on the selection of their
eldest sons wife. Engishmen of the
| lie on or near the throne, and there is
not to-day, as in 1864, II reigning prince,
| like the Prince of Denmark, with bcVy
of fair daughters to wear the crowns Of
| the Protestant realms. Moreover as the
political isolation of England has in
creased the popular dislike of everything
| German has grown with it. In society
| this sentiment has been shown by mani
! festations against 1.-The Teclis" and the
| Battenbergs." Among the masses it has
| assumed a dangerously threatening
| form. No German prince or princess can
| ever again be brought into the royal
family of Great Britain.
Lord BeacOnsfield was the first one to
suggest that the queen 5 eldest grandson
should take an American wife. The
willy old statesman had in his lifetime
seen so many social prejudices broken
down, so many apparently insuperable
| barriers removed that he fOrCtOld the day
when the English monarchy 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
received, their charms of person and in
tellect, their easy supremacy in the high
est drawing rooms of London, proved to
careful watchers of the times that the
ultimate result was inevitable. In the
innermost circles of the court it was ru
mored nearly year ago that the Prince Of
Wales would look to the United States
for wife of his eldest son.
AMERICAN WOMEN POPULAR.
Consequently, both he and the princess
have done everything in their power to
enhance the social popularity Of Ameri-
can women in London. He personally
undertook 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 attention to the Amer1-
| can ladies. and few of our hOmeward-
bound bellies, who are flushed with their
social triumphs in London are aware that
they have simply served to prepare the
ways for the greatest wedding in Eng
land. The queen, who has long Ouslived
her antipathy to Americans, gave her
| consent to the scheme at its outset; and
| the Princess of Wales, who used to COM
plain that American girls were loud, Z"
now expresses herself as being entirely
pleased with the idea of Prince Albert
Victor's marriage to one of them.
! have heard whispers that a young
lady has been already designated by the
queen. However, all my informants
agree that the time is not yet ripe for the
publication of her name. All that is alb
solutely certain is that Prince Albert Vic
tor is to marry an American, and that
unless the tidal wave of democracy
sweeps away the British throne, an
American girl will be queen of England.
To have limited at such contingency
would, few years ago, have been re-
garded as lunacy To-day it will be
calmly accepted, and will simply resolve
itself into the question, "Who is she?'-
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