The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1886-12-22
Whole: No. 2o3
TIE WAY fO.A THKONR
4 POSSIBLE AMERICAN QUEEN NJ
THE NEAR FUTURE. }

One Of our Country women Said to HsVa
Been Selected as a wife for Prieee Ale
bert victor. Eldest Son Of the Prince 81
walss.
Ihave a piece Of interesting newB for
the ladies' Prince Albert Victor, the
eldest. son of the Prince Of Wales, and
the prospective king Of England, Is 70
marry IN American. His father and
mother have been led to this decisiO8
partly through the paucity Of Protestant
families rctgning in Europe; and partly
through the popular discontenta at the
constant German alliances. The only
Protestant houses with marriageabls
daughters are those of the petty German
princes: and the disfavOr which mas
greeted the marriages Of the Duke o.
Edinburgh and the Princess Beatrice 70
attributed by the queen to the facts that
the former took q wife OF another than
the accepted English faith, and that ths
latter married a German. a
A CONSTANT SOURCE or TROUBLE.
This dilemma has been q constants
source Of trouble TO the Pripce and Prin-
cess OF Wales The stability of the throne
itself depends on the selection OF their
eldest sons wife English1nen OF the
lie on or near the throne, and there IL
not to-day, as In 1854, reigning prince,
like the Prince OF Denmark, with bevy
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 shewn by mani
testationS against "the TeckS" and the
Battenberes F" Among the muses. 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 Beaeonsfleld was the first une TO
suggest that the queens eldest grandson
should take an American wife. The
| willy old statesman had in his lifetime
seen SO many social pretudiees broken
down, so many apparently insuPerabIo
barriers removed, that hs fOretOld the day
when the English monarchy, and the
American republic should finally Join
hands Every marriage Of 40 English
peer or peers ion to an American has
brought this day nearer; and the favor
with which the American peeresses are
received, Their charms of person and ia-
tellect, their easy supremacy in the high.
est drawing rooms of London, proved 70,
careful watchers of the times that the
ultimate result was inevitable. In the
| inltermost circles Of the court 1t was ru-
mored nearly year ago that the Prince %
| Wales would look 10 the United States
for a wife of his eldest son.
AMERICAN weHRN 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 il wna
at his advice that the match was broken
| Oft. At all state balls and concerts he
paid conspicuous attention to tbs AmeEt"
| can ladies' and few Of onf homewRrd-
bound bellies, who are flushed with their
social triumphs in London are aware that
they have simply served to prepare the
| wavs 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 10 COM
| plain that American girls were f'loud,"
now expresses herself as being entirely
| pleased with the idea Of Prince Albert
| Victor's marriage to ore Of them.
| l have heard whispers that q young
| lady has been already designated by the
| queen, However, all my informants
agreO that tile time is not yet ripe for the
| publication of her name. AllsthEt Ia gb-
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 be queen OF England.
To have hinted at such contingency
would, few years ago, have been re-
garded as iunacy, To-day Il will be
calmly accepted, and will simply resolve
| itself into the question, ''WhO In she:''--
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