Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-12-27

To be Celebrated In February, In ST.
aeoree.s Chapel, windsor.

the eth of February. The ceremony
will be reformed in st. Georges Chapel,
Windsor Castle.
Vanity Fair to-day says that the
Duke, who is Major Of the Tenth hus-
sars. will not rejoin his regiment after
his marriage, but will soon be appointed
an unpaid Msjor-General supernumer-
airy. 1t adds that he will probably be
the next Viceroy Of India.
London Truth says: ga proposal is on
foot that the Duke Of Clarence should
be appointed Lord-Lieutenant or Ire
land next Autumn. Were this idea
carried out His Royal Highness and the
future Duchess would reside in Dublin
for about half Of each year.
The DGilu Nelcs has the following in
teresting record: "Of marriages OF
Princes of Wales there are few records
from that Of the Black Prince with the
Fair Maid Of Kent down to that OF
Prince Albert Edward with the Princess
of Alexandra of Denmark, but we be-
lieve there is precedent for the marri-
age of Prince of Wales son as such,
and in the Prince of Wales lifetime.
no ldSJ IIuCc VI w dlco kNCOl ~
had no son by his marriage with the
unhappy Princess Caroline OF Bruins
wick, and at the time of his marriage
and, in fact, at the time of his birth
his father had ceased to be Prince or
Wales and was King George III. As
everybody knows, George Ills father
was Prince of Wales, and did not live to
be king. OF his family there were three
sons married, bat none OF them was
married in the fathers lifetime. The
eldest son had been crowned George III.
before his union with Charlotte Sophia,
Of Mecklenburg-Streltz, and this was
OF course regarded as Kings marriage
rather than that Of Prince OF Wales's
son. The Duke of Gloucester and Ed
inburgh, George Ills brother, was
married in 1906, and another brother
the Duke Of Cumberland and Earl OF
Dublin-was married on the I'd OF Octo'
Der, III. These two marriages are the
last recorded marriages Of sons OF
Prince Of Wales; but they were not mar
riageS OF sons OF the then existing Prince
OF Wales, and must rather have been
spoken OF as the marriages Of the Kings
brothers.
George II. was Prince OF Wales, and
he had two sons. one OF whom was the
father OF the married Duke just men
toned; but George ii. was King, and
not Prince of Wales, when his son, the
father of George Ill, was welded to
Augusta of SaXe-Gotha. From George
ii. we must 60 back to the Merry Mon
arch. He was the preceding Prince OF
Wales, and he had no sons to marry
that is TO say, no acknowledged or le-
gally recognized sons; while his own
marriage was the wedding OF sover-
eign and not as q Prince OF Wales son.
He had been Charles ii. for more
than year when he married Katharine
CT BraganZa. Charles /. and his elder
brother, Henry Frederick, were both
Princes OF Wales, but not the sons OF
Prince Of Wales, the last Princes OF
Wales before these two brothers being
also two brothers, who lived century
before them-the two elder sons OF
Henry VII, one Of whom became
Henry VIII. Their father was never
Prince Of Wales, so that their marriages
afford no historic precedent bearing on
the latest royal betrothsl. 1t is worth
while, IN passing, to note that since
Henry VIII. there has only been one
Prince of Wales born OF an English
mother, and he is the Prince of Wales OF
the present day.
Before Henry Wis sons the title
Of Prince Of Wales was borne by Ed
ward, the only son of Richard III. but
he died at the age of ten; bis predeces-
/ %n hn
but las Edward W was murdered in
the Tower. The Prince of Wales before
him Edward of Westminster) married
when his father was HeGry VI, but had
no children when he met his cruel fate
after the battle Of Tewkesbury. The
Prince Of Wales Of Shakesperean re-
nown-Henry of Monmouth, the nero of
Agincourt-did rot ask his Katherine to
Vonchsafe to tesch soldier terms,
| Such as will enter at lady's ear,
And plead his love suit to her gentle heart
until he had been seven years King OF
ENGLAND. The Black Princes son did
not marry till he was Richard the Sec
ond, and the Black Prince himself was
Prince of Wales when he married the
Fair Maid of Kent. His father was on
the throne as Edward III, when he
wooed his Philippa. Similarly the pre-
ceding and first English Prince OF Wales
married, as King Edward H., the daugh-
ter OF Philip the Fair of France.
"Thus throughout the whole roll OF
the Princes of Woles, extending back
nearly six hundred years, there has
been no record till the present OF be-
trothal of marriage OF the son OF the
Prince OF Wales"
The London Gazette thus officially an
nounces the Queens consent:
"At the Court at Windsor, the 18th
day OF December, 1891. Present-The
Queens Most Excellent Majesty in
Council.
s'Her Majesty in Council was this
day pleased TO declare her consent to
contract Of matrimony between His
Royal:Highness Prince Albert Victor
Christian Edward, Duke OF Clarence and
Ayondale, and Earl OF Athlone, knight
of the Most Noble Order OF the
Garter, and Knight of the Most lllustri-
Gus Order OF ST. Patrick, eldest son OF
His Royal Highness the Prince and his
consort Her Royal Highness the Prin-
cess of Wales, and Her Serene Highness
the Princess Victoria Mary Augusta
Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes,
daughter of Her Royal Highness the
Princess Mary Adelaide Wilhelma Eliza
beth and His Highness Francis Paul
Charles Louis Alexander, Duke Of Teck,
knight Grand Cross OF the Most Honor
able Order Of the Bath; which consent
Her Majesty has also caused to be sig
nified under the Great Seal and entered
in the books of the Privy-Council.