Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-09-23
A Possible American Queen in tho Near
Future.
New York T0wn TopIc8.


New York Town Topics,
have 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 fami-
lies 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 duke of
Edinburgh and the Princess Beatrice is
attributed by the queen to the facts that
the former took the wife OF another than
| the accepted English faith, and that the
latter married a German
This dilemma has been a 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 q
Catholic on or near the throne, and there
is not to-day, as In 1864 "a reigning prince,
| Ike the king Of Denmark, with beyy OF
fair daughters to wear the crowns of the
Protestant realms. Moreover, as the po-
liucal isolation OF England has increased
the popular dislike of everything German
has grown with II. In society this senti.
ment has been shown by manifestations
against "the Tecksn and "the Batten-
bergs." Among the masses IL has as.
sumed a dangerously threatening form
No German prince or princess can ever
again be brought into the royal family OF
Great Britain.
Lord Beaconsneld was the first to sug
gest the Queens eldest grandson should
take an American wife. The willy ole
statesman had in his lifetime seen SC
many social prejudices broken down, sc
many apparently insuperahle barriers re
moved, that he foretold the day when the
English monarchy and the American re,
pnblic should finally Join hands Every
marriage of an English peer or peers sor
to an American has brought this day
nearer; and the favor with which the
American peeresses are received, theii
charms of person and intellect, their easy
supremacy in the highest drawing rooms
OF London, proved to careful watchers oil
the times that The result was inevitable
In the innermost circles of the court /,
was rumored nearly year 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 ia
enhance the social popularity OF Amerl.
can women in London. He personally
undertook TO arrange the wedding OF
Lord Cairns and Miss Grant, and II was
at his advice that the match was broken
on. At all state balls and concerts ne
paid conspicuous attention to the Ameri.
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 way for the greatest wedding In En-
gland. The queen, who has long outliyed
her antipathy to Americans, gave her con-
sent to the scheme at It's outset; and the
princess OF Wales, who used TO complain
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 abb
solutely 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 En-
gland. To have limited at such con-
hngercy would, few years ago, have
been regarded as lunacy. To-day II will
be calmly accepted, and win simply re-
solve itself into the question, "Who is
sheg"