Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1888-04-03
THE RMPEROR's wOOING
Queen vtcIorias simple story of Hi
CouFtshIp.

Queen vicIoria's simple Story of His
Courtship.
The story which has especially made the
present German emperor dear toF English
hearts is that of his love and of his mar
riags, says the London Telegraph. In 1855,
accompanied by the great Won Moltke as his
personal aidede camp, the young prince set
out ca journey to this country-a journey
of highly important nature. Els wooing
was no secret. He came to seek the permis-
sion of the Queen and prince consort to pay
his addresses to their eldest daughter, our
crown princess. He seems indeed to have
made favorable impression, for we find the
prince eonsort writing 10 his friend, Baron
Won Stockmar, "Ths young gentleman has
pleased me very much. Great straightfor-
| wardness, frankness and uprightness are his
| conspicuous salient characteristics. He
| seems tree from prejudices and well-inten .
| toned in the highest degree" The proposal
| was accepted, but the prince consert wrote:
GAS far as the other party was concerned
| we begged him to hold it over until after her
| confirmation and her seventeenth birthday" f."
| October the prince eonsort wrote again to the
| baron: 1.-THE young people are violently in
| love with one another, and the purity, inno-
cence and disinterestedness of the young
man are really touching" In 1856 Frederick
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| was made D. G. L. of Oxford. Then he
was present at all the successive great state
| functions of Europe at that period, such as
| the coronation of his first cousin, the Gar
| Alexander, in Moscow, and was entertained
| at the Tuileries by the emperor and empress
of the French, the empress describing him
as ssa tall, handsome man, slender and fair \
\. German such as Taeitus describes, of
chivalric peliteness, and with something of
Hamlet in his bearing" His formal be-
trothal to the crown princess was announced
1S5S-the day he had SO often called the
'thappiest of his life"-he stood. newly
made Knight of the Garter, in the Chapel
| Royal, at st. James palace, beside the royal
maiden. Then it was that the Qaeen simply
| writes: "The three girls were in silk satin,
| trimmed with Newport lace, Alice with q
| wreath and the tive others with bouquets IN
| their hair of cern-howers and marguerites;
next the four boys in Highland costume y
That irst-named loved princess is gene, as
are others the Queen speaks of, among them
.mamma (the Duchess of KENT looking SO
handsome in violet velvet, trimmed with er-
mine and whitesilk and violet" Gone toe
is Lord Palmerston, who, says the royal
| chrenicler of the day, s'carried the sword OF
state with easy grace and dignity" my
fear of being overcome again." writes the
Queen, vanished on seeing Vickys quiet,
calm and composed manner" and how swift
ly the years go may be CLEANED from another
phrase in her majesty's account of that mem
orable day: SIT was just as at my marriage,
only how small the old royal family has be-
come! Prince William, the present heir ap
parent to the German and Prussian thrones
was born on January 18th, 1853, one yeal
and two days after his august parents wed
ding day.