New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-04-11

&uiStOIy -eaCH picture, Sa1nG ana cldn-
Ell has its tale to tell, and some are
curious to find them out; but life is
too short-We see within a church or
two, and leave the rest behind.
Tiie Lovers OF the queen.
The splendid pageant of the opening
Of Parliament and the passing of the
Queen in state from Buckingham
Palace to the House Of Lords, recalls
the day, as men look on her, in her
Mary Stuart mourning, when she
Travelled that same route as happy
young bride. Victoria, like all other
girls, had some lovers before the lucky
one came. Her first was thelate Lord
Elphinstone, a tall, singularly hand
some young peer, who was sent to
Madras as Governor to get him out of
the way. Her next was Lord Fitz-
allan, another six-footer, a splendid
young officer of the First Life Guards,
grandson of the then Duke ofNorfolk,
and afterwards Duke OF Norfolk him
self; but he was a Roman Catholic
fatal objection. Fitzallan fell passion
ately in love with a pretty
barmaid, who administered beer
at a tap opposite the Horse
Guards, and wished to marry her. His
family sent him abroad to get over
his young passion, and, falling i'll at
Athens, he married the daughter of
Admiral Lyons, British Minister there,
and sister of Lord Lyons, remembered
as Minister at Washington, who had
attended him through his sickness,
and who is still living as Dowager
Duchess. Her third lover was Lord
Alfred Paget, one of the Marquis OF
Anglessey's splendid sons, an officer OF
''the Blues" standing about six feet
two, who is the father of Captain Pa
get, married to our Miss Minnie Ste
in-chief, and has continued as equerry
ever since.
This love affair was regarded as so
dangerous that King Leopold Of Bel
GUM, the Queen suncle, brother of her
mother, the Duchess Of Kent, was sent
for. The result was that Prince AL
bert was sent fornext. Albert was at
that time a courteous, chaste, quiet,
mild, bland, accomplished prince, but
here and there q keen observer might
have detected on his round, full face a
flush, and in his manner a futter
which bespoke the agitation that
swelled the heart beneath Over the
chimney piece, too, of his student
chamber, there hung one OF Chalon's
exquisite drawings OF Victoria which,
though too fatteringly graceful and
airy even then, still when surrounded
with the interest which of itself lent
beauty to a young girl placed i'll such
q position gave fairer idea of her
than would be imagined in her present
grosser figure and highly colored face,
as presented in the most correct
and delightful pictures Of court
life, by Adam Badeau. Albert, though
little noticed, had been present at Vic
torla's coronation scene, a silent, but
not, we fancy, an unint erested speeta-
tor. When Victoria was seated on
Prince Edwards throne and the shout
which proclaimed the girl he was edu-
Gated to look on as his wife, queen of
the empire on which the sun never sets
ran alongthe roof OF the good old Alb
guns down to the City Tower, hemust
have felt some emotion; and when she
trlpped over, with agile graceto lift up
old Lord Role, who had tumbled, may
we not fancy that emotion grew into
some softer feeling. That evening, too,
when on her return, the womanwept, as
Greville tells us, because she feared to
be a queen, Albert may have been
near. A Woman's tears are at all
times touching. At such moments a
life OF happiness or unhappiness, as
the case may be, is often built. Be
this as 1T may, queens are not allowed
to possess or at least indulge in the
feelings ofotherfol and the news men
for once did not, few days after, con
vert q yawn into sigh or gid smile
with sentiment.
Well, at all events, when Leopold
sent for Albert, quick and with luggage
light as a young American starting
for Arkansas, the appointed youth
booked himself in the small steamer
which staggers between Ostend and
Dover. The affair was very quietly
managed by Leopold. In the Court
Circle column the Princes namefound
rather q mean and minioned place.
and as the Prince and Queen went out
the evening after his arrival for a
saunter in the woods, their stroll was
unobserved except by the select few
who werein the secret. But Victoria's
maid, Resale, kind, mischievous,
merry little elffrom Longenschwalbach
and who was more excited that even
ing than Victoria herself prattled, for
little guilden, to the court news
man of how Albert's meek eyes, when
they returned, were radiant with Joy,
and Victoria looked slightly flushed,
and wore in her girdle a small flower
the flower OF a dove which, through
all the darkness of widowhood, has
never lost its freshness and her straw
cottage hat was chrushed back in
front. Perchance she caught a branch
-perchance some sweeter pressure
about which I think there are some
lovely young brides in New York
could tell. BE this as it may, the club
man calling, the next morning, for his
tea and toast and Times was startled