The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-08-29
PRINCESS LOUISE AND HER
LOVER.
ROMANCE OF QUEEN WIGS DAUGH
TER AND CANON DUCKWORTH.

TER AND CANON DUCKwORTH.
They Were Enamored of Each DINER
Their Meeting at Her Niece's Wedding
Recently.
Standing in the chapel in Buckingham
Palace when the marriage ceremony was
taking place and Princess Louise became
the wife of lord Fife, many looked at
the fair BRIDES aunt, Princess Louise,
Marchioness of Lorne, with the royal
group; and then further on, where,
among the ecclesiastics, stood manly
form, broad shouldered, erect and with
most commanding air, his thoughtful
and intellectual brow surrounded and
Unframed with crown of snow-whlte
hair, and his piercing black eyes bent in
thoughtful reverie, recalled an old-tlme
romance, where true love ran, as ever,
anything but smoothly.
When the marchioness was girl, with
girlish thoughts intent and living at
Windsor Castle, her brother, the Duke
of Albany, had handsome young tutor,
or, as the English name an instructor OF
royalty, governor, by name Canon
Duckworth.
The brother and sister were much at
tached TO each other, and many were
the strolls they took together in the sun
ny gardens of the palace, accompanied
of course by the tutor to the young
prince.
Many and many an hour was spent in
secluded nook in one Of the galleries of
old Windsor. In this romantic trysting
place the handsome tutor and his royal
sweetheart exchanged vows of undylng
love and devotion.
Questions were asked and replied to,
poetry repeated, until at last DIR. Duck
worth thought nothing in life so fair
sight as Princess Louise's bright face,
while she thought not whit of her high
estate, but dreamed girlish dreams of
love, the hero of which always took the
shape of her brothers tutor and religious
adviser.
This went on for some months, when
faint whisper reached the august ears
of the royal mother, Queen Victoria.
She Immediately solved the dilemma by
declaring that her daughter must be
married at once. The question then
came up as to who the bridegroom
should be. No one of royal blood being
Forthcoming she gave her daughters
fair hand to a subject, Lord Lorne,
creating him Marquis of Lorne, and sub
sequently sending him with his bride to
Canada as Governor-G General, AS the poor
bridegroom was compelled to fly for
protection somewhere against frequent
family snubs, he having at State enter
tainments to enter a different door even
from his royal bride. All knew that
very little love was lost between this i'll
assorted pair, but few knew the real
cause.
Canon Duckworth was then sent with
the Prince of Wales on his trip to India,
in which place they both scored a sue
cess as tiger hunters, thus showing
themselves masters of the art of shoot
ing "bull's eye" as well as arrows into
feminine hearts.
Princess Louise and the canon had not
met since until at this wedding, where
again one of the blood royal married a
British subject.
Comparing the Marquis of Lorne with
Canon Duckworth, little wonder could
be expressed that the Queens daughter
could never forget her first love, and
consequently according to Dame Rumor,
lives unhappily with her husband.
Two months during each year the
canon is in residence at Westminster,
and it was my privilege TO be given his
stall there one Sunday afternoon, when
he was to preach, and after service to be
given cup of tea in his sanctum sane
forum adjoining the old abbey, which
house was formerly the home of the
venerable Dean Stanley.
On table in the drawing room was
beautiful frame jewel-studded, and in it
a picture of the Warehouses of Lorne.
Needless quite, am sure, is it to add,
that the handsome canon has never mar
ried, and though man little over 5O
years of age, still his snow. white locks
and quiet mein testify to the struggle
his soul has undergone not to "covet his
neighbours WIFE"
could not help indulging in a little
day dream in this cosy as well as gor-
geous ecclesiastical drawing room, for
il seemed 80 unfair in the Queen to
blight the lives of two such noble speci-
mems of humanity and later on allow
her favorite younger daughter, Beatrice,
to give her hand where she gave her
heart.
think the Queen would have been
prouder of her churchly son-in law, ii
Louise could have married Duckwortb,
than of the little mannikin who bears
the title of Prince Henry of Battenberg,
and who has to bow in Difference to his
royal wife, Beatrice, as the Marquis OF
Lorne is compelled also to do TO his.
Canon Duckworth never mentions the
princess in conversation, but his heart
must have futtered strangely that day
of the wedding, at the close contact be
was in to the one woman dear to his
heart. Many comments were made in
the court circle that the marchioness
had improved in looks immensely, and
that the roses seemed to be returning to
her cheeks once more.
Little doubt but that this was the re-
suit of the presence of her first and only
love, and that she offered many prayers
for the happiness of her niece and name
sake, who was marrying the man OF her
choice, needless of his lack OF royal
blood.
Canon Duckworth's image, surround
ed with a halo of girlish romance never
forgotten, is enshrined in the heat Of
the marchioness, and he is revered and
honored by her next only to her God.
oh, We "maidens all forlorn," forget not
that prelates baye hearts, and at times
most soft ones Z The sanity mien and
clerical garb seems to give an air severe,
but under the vestments OF the holy men
of the church there throbs generally
most loving and tender heart, In all oil
the great city Of London there is no bet
ter beloved man of God than Canon
nuck worth the UiilhoOd lover OF the