News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-07-26
AN OLD SCANDAL.
Mrs Kent Claims to be Queen Vic
tOria's Daughter.
From the n. Y. Herald

| The Emperor of Germanys death has
| given fresh life to an old scandal, and
will certainly bring anew into promi-
nence a strangely sensational story
which has been familiar for years to
every crowned head in Europe. The
scandal referred TO is that connected with
the name of Mrs. Kent.
! This lady claims te be the eldest
daughter Of Queen Victoria of England.
Prince Albert, she says, was in love with
a German Countess at the time when ar
engagements were being made for his
marriage with Queen Victoria, and this
Countess gave birth to girl baby about
the time when Queen Victoria gave birth
to the Princess Victoria. The Countess,
she continues, prevailed on Prince Al
bert tosubstitute her baby for Queen
Victoria's, and the natural result was
that the English Queens eldest child
was fraudulently deprived of her birth
right, while the German Countess child
became the Princess Victoria and in due
time the wife of the Crown Prince of
Germany. To-day the matter stands
thus:-The Dowager Empress of Ger
many is an imposter, according to Mrs.
Kent, and she, (A[Is. Kent is the only
real legitimate eldest daughter of Vic
toria, Queen of Great Britain and Ire
land and Empress of India.
Mrs. Kent's story is generally believed
by German revolutiOnists, and its pub
licity is largely due to the help which
they have given her. It's immediate in
terest now, however, is due to the EN-
peror of Gcrmany's death and to the
steps which Mrs Kent has, in conse-
quence, been taking to recover what she
considers her birthright. A few days
ago, it is said, she transmitted for safe
keeping to the Vatican all the dOcumen-
tary evidence in her possession, with
instructions that it shall not be pub
lished until certain interested parties
are dead; and since then, it is stated on
the same authority, she has changed her
mind somewhat, and, i'll view of recent
events. has decided to lay her case be-
fore the British House of Lords and to
appeal to that legislative body for JUS
tice. She is convinced, she says, that
Prince Albert, on his deathbed, told
Queen Victoria how strangers child
had been substituted fer her own, and
she is equally convinced that Queen
Victoria, on her deathbed, will make a
public confession of the whole story and
will do her best to repair the wrong that
has been done to her child. Evidently,
however, Mrs. Kent has grown weary of
waiting for her alleged mothers public
confession, and has determined to fight
for what she considers her birthright.
She might have held her peace forever
had the world treated her fairly well, but
her friends say that the handsome an
nuity which she used to receive from
some mysterious source in England has
been suddenly stopped, and that power
ty and inability to make both ends meet |
have forced her to make her story pub |
lie. The same friends say that during
her childhood and early womanhood she /
was p entifully supplied with money, |
AMI that the last remittance to her came ]
only few days before the death of .
Qneen Victoria's most favorite attendant.
Since then, it is said, she has not receiv-
ed penny from England, and has been
obliged to support herself by writing au-
tobiographical sketches and other liter
airy work.
Personally Mrs. Kent is stout, foril, /
and not unlike Queen Victoria Her
portrait, indeed, is strangely like that of
her alleged mother, and has strangely
impressed many people, to whom her
queer story seems utterly mere lible
Mrs. Kent is in this city Mt present, and
is doing her best to win sympathy for