Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-10-19
MRS. HATZFELDT.
G. p. Huntington's Daughter Swaps
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The region of Hanover square, London is in
state of happy anticipation quite commensu-
rate with the fact that one of Americas daugh-
tiers is to become princess in a family which
dates back into history for 800 years On the
2Sth of this month Prince Hatzfeldt and Miss
Clara Huntington, daughter of C. p. Hunting
ton, will be married at the Oratory at Cromp-
ton at 10 O'Clock in the morning
The wedding will be private one, without
ostentation or extraneous ceremonies, and only
the nearest friends of both parties will be pres
ent. This is due partly to the fact that the
Huntingtons are in mourning and furthermore
to the departure of Mr.. and Mrs. Huntington
for America on the 2Sth by the Teutonic, Mr.
Huntington's business calling him to New York
without delay. On the day of the ceremony
Prince and Princess HatZfeldt will leave for
Italy for the honeymoon, which will be spent
at the northern lakes. After month there the
prince will take his bride to Schonstein, the
center of the Hatzfeldt estate in Germany
The date of the marriage was not settled
upon until yesterday afternoon. Various cir
cumstances have delayed the conclusion. A
marriage in London according to the rites of
the Catholic church, including the publication
of the banns, necessitated that both contract
ing parties should be Catholics and that they
should have had a residence in London for
certain period The first obstruction disap-
peared through Miss Huntington becoming a
communicate of the Catholic church.
PEN PICTURE OF THE PROSPECTIVE BRIDEGROOM
Prince Hatzfeldt has been variously de-
scribed and under the present circumstances a
pen picture of him may not be uninteresting.
He is blonde, of medium height and of square
and symmetrical figure. His hair parts in the
center and rolls back in the German way, and
his moustache, which is brown and curling
takes princely honors among moustaches. His
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He is exceedingly good natured and off-handed
and is very cordial in his address. He has a
penetrating blue eye, is shrewd in observation,
has a quick, commanding manner, which is
apparently due partly to his traditions and
partly to his nervous and wiry makeup. He
dresses very quietly, with a gentleman's taste,
and evinces a notable discrimination in the
matter of scarf pins. But for his faint German
accent in speaking English he might be mis-
taken for young American of the most
polished class. The Almanac De Gotta says he
is thirty-six years old, but he does not look
thirty, if as old. 1t is only in conversation
that his added years become apparent.
THE BRIDES FUTURE HOME
Castle Schonstein, which will be the future
residence Of the prince and princess, is quite
the realization of the dreams Of all young
ladies who read novels. IL is located on a
precpitous cliff on the Rhine, and its pictur-
esque ivy-grown gray walls and towers are a
most imposing feature IN the landscape Tor
miles. 1t has the felicity of being nine hun
dred years old, having been built by the feudal
Hatzfeldts and occupied without a break by
their descendants up to now. The estates are
extensive and farms and woods stretch in all
directions over picturesque, rolling country,
so that the princess to-be will be sovereign Of
all she surveys, in several directions at least.
There are three old chatesux in ruins among
the other ornaments of the fief environment,
and the legends which cluster thereabout,
from the story of the siege of 1913 back through
realms of semi-mythical tradition, will be a
liberal education in German history il anybody
ever masters them