The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-11-14
nGLISH MARRIAGES.
.rtunste Alliances Of Royalty
and Nobility.
r,us Blood Of the Eseigning
v.ufIy Alleged to be Tainted
Lords and Ladies'.
olive Logan in courIer-Journal.

..,rx mud clouds and eclipses stair
sc1h moon and sum-"
g states the bard; and, If il be true
~ell we know it is, that nature ker
~ shows ,iefilement in some of hel
Y s.5re<f creations, how could ii be other
& - than that weak mankind should
~ 10 keep its condition entirely free
s-r,a hlemish The misallianees which
al the records Of great English fam,
a. are not solely to be observed
smane the nobility; the crown itssii
I. tainted. The widow OF the second
Henry stopped so low as TO we'd the
W.lsh churl, Owen Tudor, thus in.
rating upon the royal tree stock com
oletely ignominious. The lineage Of
.roud Queen Victoria is blurred by
tbe marriage of George the First tc
sophia Dorothea Of Zell. Burke in
& a. peerage tries strenuOasly to keep
AZ break in the royal lineage from
showing too conspicuously. .She was
me daughter of great general" he
saws. "who became Duke for Dictator)
ofJnncburg. - etc. The marriage will
forever prevept the house OF Hanover
from standing forth with front I'M
chslleneed for purity, like that oil
TohenzoIJern. These misalliances
dafe far back, however, and may be
dismissed with but reference TO them.
More interesting Is the view Of the mis-
matrimonial situation OF the present
day.
Known antiquarian bookstore .of Mr..
Francis Harvey, In st. James street
Twas invited by that genial pnrveyor
al literary and pictorial treasures 10
examine certain articles which he was
carefully putting away, TO lay in wait
for q time when their rarity win render
them peculiarly valuable. Chief
among these objects was colored
mint OF handsome young woman
dressed in the barest apology for cloth
ing; loose shirt. with short sleeves
exposed asymmetrically formed chest
almost to the waist line; short drawers
eathefed up in point over each leg
exhibited pink silk tights fitting the
limbs as only silk tights can. A
iaunty cap was perched on graceful
head, from which hung large tresses
81 glossy black hair. great witching
black eyes, and a rosebud mouth.
Under the picture we're printed these
words: Miss Herbert as the French
Spy
many years the wife of the Duke of
Cambridge. If you will look in the
pcerage, however. you viii find that
TIE only Duchess OF Cambridge is the
mother OF the duke, and the old lady
Who recently celebrated her ninefieth
birthday, and who exists in a bedrid-
den condition in the apartments
granted her By the queen in st. James
palace. The wife whom the duke. in
he rapture OF early youth, took
straight from the footlights Of his
heart and home, has never borne the
royal title, never been recognized by
Inc royal family. She is simply Mrs.
Fitzgeorge. She has daughter who
II not princess, as are her cousins,
The daughters of her fathers sister the
duchess of Teck. but is simply Miss
Fitzgeorge. The sons, Col. and Capt
Fitzgeorge, are as their titles indicate.
In the army. They are brave and
handsome young men. The family
residence Is Gloucester House, Picca-
dilly, and here these good people live
In peace and affection, although the
disparity in rank between the father
and his wife and children Is so immeas-
turably great. Mrs. Fitzgeorge is ad-
mired and respected by all who know
! her, and have been told by persons
freauenting the court that the lady
even visits the queen, who likes her I;
but her majesty will not give the royal
assent to the marriage, which would
raise the position OF the now morgan
attic wife 10 that OF royal duchess
made so, OF course, by misalliance-
Had Junius, when he hurled his
inyectives at the Duke.of Grafton, been
endowed with the gift OF prescience,
how terribly CALLING might have been
his illusions to the position of the
present heir 10 the titlel You viii find
by consulting the pages of Debrett or
Burke, that at the age of %, the Earl
OF Euston, heir TO the dukedom at his
fathers death. was married TO whom :?
All, there's the rub. While the lineage
Of brides of lesser greatness is given at
length the absence OF any further aliu-
sion--even Of the mere name--of this
woman, whom the prospective Duke
Of Grafton welded, as circumstance
OF import ominous in herald's history.
II says volumes for the unflinching
Justice OF British law courts that the
earl's desperate efforts to anuul this
misalliance have never achieved sue
cess. The earl is now 40 years of age,
and the marriage still stands, The
countess enjoys the substantial
advantages of her position although, OF
Of course, none of its special emil
nence. But oh, the pity of it youth
lowers the standard of his family
honor, contracts an impossible alli-
ance in a moment when he mistakes
the nature of his own warnings, and
believes he loves As Burns says in
The Vision
Misled by Faney's meteorray,
Ky passion driven:
But vet the light that led astray.
Was light from heaven.
Another missalliance to befnoted in
the ducal order is that of the Duchess
Of Newcastle and Tom Hohler. On
the announcement of this marriage IL
was generally known in court circles
that the queen closed the entree to the
ROYAL drawing-rooms to the duchess.
II Is not because the gentleman bore
no title; he could bear no DIV hich
would efface that of the duchess. The
Duchess of MontroSe wsddsd Mr.. Stir
ling Crowford. alp~sf0w has married
Mr.. Wilmer, ard her social status was
not tasSfn not he affected. Both
TN come Of good country fam
and were sufficiently well-born.
! ION llohler was the son of q clergy
man, and SO far, so good; but in an
unfortunate hour, as il subsequently
proved, he went upon the stage. He
sang tenor parts with Clara Louise
Kellogg. and was identified with the
Profession" for some time. II is
rather extraordinary that, while
many peers have taken actresses
v wife, and raised them to
taeir own station, very few aristocratie
women have dared 10 marry actors,
AID when they have done so social oS-
sacism has overtaken both. Lady
susan strangeways. a daughter OF Lord
holland. fell in love with handsome
lnsh actor named O'Brian. who used
y 70 10 Holland House 10 play before
sne great company there assembled.
me amorous couple eloped and were
Privately married, and they were never
sSaln seen in the world OF London,
u'nsr socially or professionally. Hor
- 81 Walpole, in his letters, says. The
Aihg gave them large grant of land
he Ohio, and Lady Susan's sorrow
~ friends hope she will he happy
1ert, etc. The installed Couple seem