Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-08-23

Italy, conceived the idea Of settling
his helr-apparent, Victor Emmanuel,
Prince of Naples, in life as the happy
husband of Princess Maude, the hand
some and vivacious daughter Of Albert
Edward, now twentY-one years old.
Naples made pilgrimage of passion
to London, and was incontinently
snnbbed by the lady, the reason as
signed being that "she was disguised
because his breath smelled of gariic;"
but the fact that Naples is Catholic
prince had probably great deal more
to do with it.
The most singular alliance of the
century is that to be cOnsummated in
the marriage of Prince Frederick Au-
gust, of Saxony, to the Archduchess
Louise, of Austria. This is, pure and
simple, a love match-that sort Of
thing which distinguishes and emo
bles the nuptials of Darby and Joan.
The house OF Saxony is Protestant to
the backbone, even to the verge of
theological Liberalism; the house Of
Hapsburg is sternly and uncomprom-
singly Catholic. Both William, of
Germany, and Joseph, of Austria, have
set the seal of royal displeasure on the
marriage, which, in ordinary, every
day English means that they have
seyerally forbidden il. But the young
folks hold to their intention. Prince
Frederick is the nephew and heir-ap-
parent to the present King Albert, Of
SaXOny, who is childless, and it is not
likely that the kaiser will go about to
grieyously offend the coming king Of
the third in importance of the states
which make up the German empire;
and if the kaiser weakens the emperor
will have to come down, so that it is
likely that this exceptional marriage
Of two royal spoons will take place.
Just here the singular fact intrudes
itself that every reigning monarch in
Europe, excepting, of course, the Sui
tan Of Turkey, is a descendant, on one
side or both of John of Gaunt,of Eng
land, and that nearly every monarchy
of that continent is ruled by a family
in which foreign blood predOminates,
though local names attach.
John Of Gaunt, English corruption
Of Client, the Belgian town in which
he was born, was the fourth son of
Edward III Of England, and brother
Of the famous Black Prince. His son,
by his marriage with Blanche, daugh-
ter of Henry Plantagenet, became
Henry ~, the first king of the house
Of Lancaster. His third wife was
Catherine Swynford, gOyerness of his
second wife's children, by whom he
had three sons and one daughter be-
fore marriage, who were afterwards
legitimatized, and of whom, John,
Earl of Somerset, was an ancestor of
the Tudors. The Others were married
into continental families and every
living member of every royal family of
Europe, with the exception noted, can
trace his or her lineage back to Gaunt,
the defender of Wyclifre.
These things are only interesting
because they are not of our every.
day life, and form experiences apart
from those of our people and ancestry
If our forefathers had known as
much as we do, this editorial essay
would never have been written. fol
they would have swept the descend
ants Of John Of Gaunt into obscurity
or, at least, given them the
shift of looking out for them
selves, long before they had spread
into such glorious peacocktail
of universal royalty. And it is on
the cards that not many years will
elapse before such glorious consum.
nation will have been achieved in